Revolution at Point Zero : Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Federici, Silvia

ISBN 10: 1629638579 / ISBN 13: 9781629638577

Published by PM Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Revolution at Point Zero : Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
• Publisher: PM Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1629638579
• ISBN 13: 9781629638577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Written between 1974 and 2012, Revolution at Point Zero collects forty years of research and theorising on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women's struggles on this terrain - to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organisation of work and the contradictions inherent in alienated labour is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reporduction. Beginning with Federici's organisational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the essays collected here unravel the power and politics of wide but related issues including the international restructuring of reproductive works and its effects on the sexual division of labour, the globalisation of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labour, and the politics of the commons. this new and expanded edition contains two previously unpublished essays by the authors.

About the Author

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; Beyond the Periphery of the Skin;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.