Linda Clarke

Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals) (eBook, ePUB)

Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136599538
• Artikelnr.: 38270967

Autorenporträt

Linda Clarke

Inhaltsangabe

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