This was, of course, part and parcel of the destruction of spatial forms of working-class solidarity based in dense urban communities or the shared experience of tenancy. Home ownership became one of the key means of encouraging workers to tether their hopes and dreams to the capitalist marketplace and to define economic and social gender norms in the post-war period. Robin Blackburn (2006) has illustrated the way retirement investments likewise tether working-class prosperity to ruling class interests.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 518