ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a few examples to illustrate the contention that the linkage between labour and housing is a fundamental internal one, in which the content of labour and the form of housing are directly related, and are prior to the external relations of the markets for each. It suggests as prominent on a future research agenda an examination of the internal relationship between class, work processes and the nature of housing provision. The relationship between work and housing is much more than a relationship between labour markets and housing markets. The internal linkage between labour processes and the provision and use of housing runs underneath the market, and is a precondition of the interplay of market forces. The motivations of both providers and users of housing are shaped by the labour process: the market then provides some of the field on which these motivations are played out, constrained, and expressed; but only some, not all, of that field.
