The chapter summarises the key arguments in the book: analysing social issues and non-Marxist responses it evolves Marx’s concept of use-values to include non-market use-values not presupposed for market and distributed by non-market means. These use-values are social wealth that solves citizens’ problems created in state public services, produced and distributed by households, the third-sector and not-for-profit public-private partnerships. This use-value perspective challenges existing theory of the state that neglects public services, public management theory ignoring class conflict, and the role of use-values in mode of production transition, all within an orthodox Marxist system accepting the law-of-value and falling rate-of-profit as creating capital breakdown as the organic composition of capital rises. Plainly the non-market use-values have expanded since Marx’s day and the book charts their growth and distribution, highlighting new public management as the neoliberal instrument of class attack on reforms previously made by the working-class. Use-values are valuable, but do not have labour value, are not exchanged on the market for profit. We bring together research from Marxism, innovation studies, public management, and social policy to these arguments that interrelate in a new way social relations of production and social relations of reproduction. The chapter outlines the book’s aims, objectives and structure.