Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism - Couverture rigide

Federici, Silvia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1629638587 ISBN 13 : 9781629638584

Editeur : PM Press, 2020

Synopsis

In Patriarchy of the Wage, Silvia Federici, best-selling author and the most important Marxist feminist of our time, asks why Marx and the Marxist tradition were so crucial in their denunciation of capitalism's exploitation of human labor and blind to women's work and struggle on the terrain of social reproduction. Why was Marx unable to anticipate the profound transformations in the proletarian family that took place at the turn of the nineteenth century creating a new patriarchal regime? In this fiery collection of penetrating essays published here for the first time, Federici carefully examines these questions and in the process has provided an expansive redefinition of work, class, and class-gender relations. Seeking to delineate the specific character of capitalist patriarchalism, this magnificently original approach also highlights Marx's and the Marxist traditions problematic view of industrial production and the State in the struggle for human liberation. Federici's lucid argument that most reproductive work is irreducible to automation is a powerful reminder of the poverty of the revolutionary imagination that consigns to the world of machines the creation of the material conditions for a communist society. Patriarchy of the Wage does more than just redefine classical Marxism; it is an explosive call for a new kind of communism. Read this book and realise the power and importance of reproductive labour]

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Silvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972 she was cofounder of the International Feminist Collective that launched the Wages for Housework campaign. Her books include Caliban and the Witch; Re-enchanting the World; and Witches, Witch Hunting, and Women. She is a professor emerita at Hofstra University, where she taught in the social sciences. She worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years and was also the cofounder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PM Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1629638587
• ISBN 13: 9781629638584
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
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• Personne responsable: non disponible