Living at work: accommodation, labour and social reproduction

There is no stable, standard or typical relationship between work and home under global capitalism. Rather we witness shuffling similar cards in new circumstances, with changing forms of accommodation-work arrangements that organize the relation between labour and dwelling, shaping how labour is recruited, fixed, reproduced and valorized. These arrangements bring production and social reproduction into a shifting and often tense unity, making visible both the reproduction of capitalism and the crises and contradictions that emerge at the meeting point of living and working. Analyzing these configurations is therefore essential to understanding contemporary labour regimes and the new spatialities of capitalist development.