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Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism

Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism

Federici, Silvia

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Series: Spectre

General Political ScienceSocial MovementsWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1629637998
ISBN13: 9781629637990
Publisher: PM Press
Published: Aug 24 2021
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.

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