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Patriarchy of the Wage
Patriarchy of the Wage

Patriarchy of the Wage

Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism

Spectre

SOCIAL SCIENCE

144 Pages, 5 x 8

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $15.00 (US $15.00) (CA $20.00)

Publication Date: August 2021

ISBN 9781629637990

Rights: WOR X UK & EUR

PM Press (Aug 2021)

Not Yet Published. Estimated release date: August 2021
 

Overview

Read this book and realize the power and importance of reproductive labor!

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 tradition's 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.

Reviews

"Silvia Federici's work embodies an energy that urges us to rejuvenate struggles against all types of exploitation and, precisely for that reason, her work produces a common: a common sense of the dissidence that creates a community in struggle." —Maria Mies, coauthor of Ecofeminism "Federici has become a crucial figure for young Marxists, political theorists, and a new generation of feminists." —Rachel Kushner author of The Flamethrowers "Federici's attempt to draw together the work of feminists and activist from different parts of the world and place them in historical context is brave, thought-provoking and timely. Federici's writing is lucid and her fury palpable." —Red Pepper "Real transformations occur when the social relations that make up everyday life change, when there is a revolution within and across the stratifications of the social body. . . . Silvia Federici offers the kind of revolutionary perspective that is capable of revealing the obstacles that stand in the way of such change." —Feminist Review "Reading Federici empowers us to reconnect with what is at the core of human development, women's labor-intensive caregiving—a radical rethinking of how we live." —Z Magazine

Author Biography

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.