ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part provides some of the possible directions that the study of labour and housing markets and their interrelations can take. It discusses a welcome attempt to come to theoretical grips with the divisions within the labour and housing markets and the links between them. The part explores a more concrete focus, illustrating theoretical insights where appropriate with evidence from the UK, from Australia and from the USA. It describes the highly segmented nature of the labour market and the different housing trajectories experienced by those workers outside of and those workers in corporate internal labour markets. Class practices and tastes, translated from the kinds of work peculiar to the different classes, and are thus considered to be far more significant than the commodity character of either wage labour or housing.
