Labor, Capital, and Class Struggle around the Built Environment in Advanced Capitalist Societies

understanding a facet of class struggle under advanced capitalism. The conflicts that will be scrutinized are those that relate to the production and use of the built environment, by which I mean the totality of physical structures-houses, roads, factories, offices, sewage systems, parks, cultural institutions, educational facilities, and so on. In general I shall argue that capitalist society must of necessity create a physical landscape-a mass of humanly constructed physical resources-in its