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Title
A theory of housing provision under capitalism / Mike Berry.
ISBN
3031244710 electronic book
9783031244711 (electronic bk.)
3031244702
9783031244704
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-24471-1 doi
Call Number
HD7287 .B47 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.33/8
Summary
Drawing on sophisticated Marxist categories of analysis, Australias premier scholar of urban studies shows how complex flows of capital impact intricate processes of class formation and fragmentation. Berrys brilliant insights into contemporary urban power dynamics demonstrate the relevance of classical sociological perspectives for our globalizing world. Highly recommended! Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Sociology at The University of Hawaii-Manoa, author of Globalization: A Very Short Introduction 6th Ed. (2020) The use value of theory shines brilliantly in Mike Berrys realist reading of Marxs materialist dialectics. Amid world-wide wails and finger-pointing over the price of housing, this eminently readable tome by an exceptionally well-regarded housing analyst accurately casts the home in structural terms as a vehicle of the advance of capital. Anitra Nelson, Honorary Principal Fellow, the Informal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-), University of Melbourne, Australia and author of Beyond Money (2022) This book provides the first coherent Marxist analysis of the central importance of housing in the social reproduction of capitalism as a whole. Rather than consigning housing to the sidelines, Berry argues that the circulation of capital and revenues though housing and the built environment helps explain how the capital-labour relation constrains housing outcomes while also being reproduced on an extended scale. He shows how housing is provided by the intervention of building, property and interest-bearing capital fractions; how the land question can be explained by a theory of urban land rent, drawing on Marx's categories of differential and monopoly rent; how housing is vital to the extended reproduction of labour power, while also creating a semi-separate sphere of 'home' in which gender and demographic factors overlay and accentuate social class position. The modes, impact and drivers of state intervention in housing provision are seen to modify the patterns and pace of capital circulation through housing and the urban built environment with implications for shifts in class fragmentation and power relations. Mike Berry is Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies and Public Policy in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Australia.
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Series
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Building from First Principles
Part I: Housing as a Commodity
Chapter 2: Housing as a use value
Chapter 3: The Production of Housing
Chapter 4: The Realisation of Housing
Part II: Housing as a Land-use
Chapter 5: The Territorial Imperative
Chapter 6: The Theory of Urban Land Rent
Chapter 7: Landed Property: An Historical Excursion
Part III: Housing and Social Reproduction
Chapter 8: The Extended Reproduction of Labour Power
Chapter 9: The Social Construction of the Home 1: Culture
Chapter 10: The Social Construction of the Home 2: Gender and Age
Chapter 11: Housing and Class in the neoliberal Era
Part IV: Housing and the State
Chapter 12: Housing and the Myth of the Free Market
Chapter 13: Housing, Wealth and Power
Chapter 14: The Housing Macro Nexus
Part V: Navigating the Future
Chapter 15: The Project: Architect Not Bee
Chapter 16: Countering the Counter-Attack
Chapter 17: Concluding Comments The Limits to Capital.
