{"product_id":"revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle-silvia-federici-by-working-class-history-shop","title":"Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle – Silvia Federici by Working Class History | Shop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFulfilled by our friends at Working Class History | Shop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSecond, expanded edition. Written between 1974 and 2016, \u003cem\u003eRevolution at Point Zero \u003c\/em\u003ecollects 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndeed, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis revised and expanded edition includes three additional essays and a new preface by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Federici has become a crucial figure for young Marxists, political theorists, and a new generation of feminists.”\u003cbr\u003e—Rachel Kushner, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Flamethrowers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eRed Pepper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eZ Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is good to think with Silvia Federici, whose clarity of analysis and passionate vision come through in essays that chronicle enclosure and dispossession, witch-hunting and other assaults against women, in the present, no less than the past. It is even better to act armed with her insights.”\u003cbr\u003e—Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eRe-enchanting the World\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eBeyond the Periphery of the Skin; \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWitches, Witch Hunting, and Women\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eSKU:\u003c\/span\u003e 9781629637976\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e Silvia Federici\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e PM Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN:\u003c\/span\u003e 9781629637976\/9781629638577\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished:\u003c\/span\u003e 7\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat:\u003c\/span\u003e Paperback\/Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize:\u003c\/span\u003e 5.5 x 8.5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePage count:\u003c\/span\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSubjects:\u003c\/span\u003e Women’s Studies\/Political Science\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"VYSN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42650420576350,"sku":"carro-15650454","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/6555\/6830\/files\/large_1086_revolution_at_point_zero_2nd_web.jpg?v=1776283638","url":"https:\/\/impossible-girls-2.myshopify.com\/products\/revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle-silvia-federici-by-working-class-history-shop","provider":"Impossible girl's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}