Financial Times’ best books of 2025? A new release from MRP about architects as workers

The Financial Times just listed the newly released book The Labor of Architecture as one of its chosen titles among the Best Books of 2025 in the category of Art, Architecture and Design! How odd. Many congratulations to author C.G. Beck for getting the word out to new audiences about the efforts of architects to be recognized as workers. We don’t know what it means for the word “Marxist” to be mentioned in such a publication in a positive sense, but we would like to acknowledge it can be quite a feat. See below:

And if you would rather listen to a Billy Bragg song while pondering the words of Marx directly, rather than read the Financial Times, watch this short clip above or head to the MR YouTube page.