Revolution at Point Zero

Nessuna copertina — Silvia Federici: Revolution at Point Zero (2012, PM Press)

208, pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 24 Dicembre 2012 da PM Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-60486-771-8

Written between 1974 and 2016, Revolution at Point Zero collects four decades of research and theorizing 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 organization of work and the contradictions inherent in “alienated labor” is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction.

Beginning with Federici’s organizational 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 work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the politics of the commons.

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Written between 1974 and 2016, Revolution at Point Zero collects four decades of research and theorizing 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 organization of work and the contradictions inherent in “alienated labor” is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction.

Beginning with Federici’s organizational 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 work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the politics of the commons.

(Source: PM Press)

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Steven Ray ha recensito Revolution at Point Zero di Silvia Federici

A good education on feminist issues

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A series of essays which Federici wrote between 1975 and 2016, this book's theme could broadly be defined as the myriad ways in which women have been impacted by the capitalist system and how they've responded to it.

The wages for housework focus which the author had in the early seventies informs her essays here quite often, and she writes about it with authority. There is also a very informative essay on the structural adjustment programs which the World Bank implemented in the so-called Third World to bring multi-national companies into Africa, South America and Asia to privatize formally communal land, decimating local's ability to grow food to feed their families. Other essays focus on elder care, affective labor, and migratory domestic workers and their struggles for rights. Covering efforts in North America, Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, she paints a broad picture of common struggle.

This …

A series of essays which Federici wrote between 1975 and 2016, this book's theme could broadly be defined as the myriad ways in which women have been impacted by the capitalist system and how they've responded to it.

The wages for housework focus which the author had in the early seventies informs her essays here quite often, and she writes about it with authority. There is also a very informative essay on the structural adjustment programs which the World Bank implemented in the so-called Third World to bring multi-national companies into Africa, South America and Asia to privatize formally communal land, decimating local's ability to grow food to feed their families. Other essays focus on elder care, affective labor, and migratory domestic workers and their struggles for rights. Covering efforts in North America, Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, she paints a broad picture of common struggle.

This was for me both an education on the issues presented as well as a historical document covering the past fifty years. Well worth my time.

Steven Ray

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