Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals): Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment

ISBN-13: 9780415688024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 316 str.

Linda Clarke

Opis

First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism. Linda Clarke's vital work argues that:

• Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in building as well as a concentration of the labour force.
• The quality of the labour process determines the development of production.
• Changes to the built environment reflect changes in the production process and, in particular, the development of wage labour.

To support these arguments, the author identifies a qualitatively new historical stage of capitalist building production involving a significant expansion of wage labour, and hence capital, and the transition from artisan to industrial production. Linda Clarke draws from a wide range of original material relating to the development of London from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century to provide a complete description of the development process: materials extraction, roadbuilding, housebuilding, paving, cleansing, etc; profiles of builders and contractors involved, and a picture of the new working class communities, as in Somers Town - their living conditions, population, working environment, and politics.

Spis treści

Part 1: Theoretical Questions and Considerations  1. Urbanization as a Production Process  2. Transition and Historical Change in the Urbanization Process  3. Stages a Structure or Transition  4. The End of Artisan Production  Part 2: Urbanization through Artisan Production: From Brill Farm to Somers Town  5. Eighteenth-Century Building Conditions in and Around London  6. The Early Development of Brill Farm and its surroundings  7. A Breakdown in the Process of Building St. Pancras  Part 3: Urbanization Through Contracting  8. The Builder as Contractor  9. A New Stage of Building Production  10. The Capital Expands

O autorze

Linda Clarke