by Silvia Federici
PM Press
8/1/2020, paperback
SKU: 9781629637976
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.
This revised and expanded edition includes three additional essays and a new preface by the author.
Reviews:
“Federici has become a crucial figure for young Marxists, political theorists, and a new generation of feminists.” — Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers
“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
About the Author:
Silvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972 she was co-founder of the International Feminist Collective that launched the Wages for Housework campaign. Her books include Caliban and the Witch, Patriarchy of the Wage, 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 co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa.