THE HOUSING MONSTER (Part 2)
b'In the second of four parts, we present an audiobook version of The Housing Monster, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website prole.info.\\n\\nThe Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing\\u2014a house\\u2014and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker\\u2019s diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street.\\nStarting 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. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole.\\n\\nThis episode includes: \\n\\nPart One: The Construction Site \\n- Chapter 2: Socialization, Separation and Subcontracting\\n- Chapter 3: Skill and Backwardness\\n- Chapter 4: The Pace of Work\\n- Chapter 5: Safety and Self-Destruction\\n- Chapter 6: Macho Shit\\n- Chapter 7: Blue Collar Blues\\n\\nGo to \\u2060www.prole.info\\u2060 to access the illustrated ebook.\\n\\nSubscribe to the \\u2060Spaghetti For Brains newsletter\\u2060 for new writing and updates: www.spaghettiforbrains.com'