Class Meets Land

Contents List of Illustrations  Acknowledgments: The Academic Manuscript as a Collective “Labor of Love”  Introduction: A Timeful Analysis of Class Struggle as a Force of Spatial Production  PART I. CITY OF INDUSTRY: LAND AS THE MEANS TO FORGE A NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPE OF WORKING MEN AND WOMEN (1880–1939) 1. Class Meets Land: Turning Flexible Peasantry into Disciplined Industrial Labor (1880–1922)  2. Land as Catalyst for Forging Class Consciousness (1922–1939)  PART II. CITY OF WORKERS: LAND AS SPACE FOR COMMONING AND RADICAL POLITICAL ACTION (1939–EARLY 1970s) 3. Land as Citadel of Workers’ Anti-Fascist Resistance (1939–1945) 4. “Italy’s Stalingrad” and the “Years of Lead”: Radicalizing Social Claims over  Industrial Land (1945–Early 1970s)  PART III. CITY OF TECHNOLOGY: LAND REVANCHISM AS A MEANS OF TRANSITIONING TO HIGH-TECH CAPITALISM (EARLY 1970s–early 1990s) 5. Land Revanchism and the Unmaking of the Working Class (Early 1970s–1985) 6. The Eureka Moment: “Discovering” Industrial Land as Asset (1985–Early 1990s)  PART IV. CITY OF FINANCE: LAND AS PURE FINANCIAL ASSET (EARLY 1990s–2020) 7. Land Financialization as a “Lived” Process: From Industrial Commodity Production to  the Production of Land as Financialized Asset (Early 1990s–2000) 8. Decaffeinated Urbanity: Financialized Land as No-Man’s-Land (2000–2020) Epilogue: Financialization as “Lived” Process: Moving the Field Forward Notes  References  Index