Housing Monster

Name: Housing Monster
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ISBN: 9781604865301

ISBN-10: 160486530X

ISBN-13: 9781604865301

Edition: 2012

Authors: Prole. info Prole.info

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This scathing illustrated essay takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker’s diary, a short story, a psychology…

Book details

List price: $24.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: PM Press
Publication date: 6/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

The author is an anonymous worker whose writings and illustrations can be found on www.prole.info. "Prole" is short for "proletarian" a word used by Karl Marx to describe the working class under capitalism. We are all the people in this society who do not own property or a business we can make money from, and therefore have to sell our time and energy to a boss--we are forced to work. Our work is the basis of this society.