Wages for Housework

Wages for Housework
Author: Silvia Federici
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781570272844

Compilation of documents and texts from The New York Wages for Housework Committee 1972-1977 and from other branches of the Wages for Housework movement.

Wages for Housework

Wages for Housework
Author: Louise Toupin
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2018
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780745338682

A history of the feminist movement that changed how we see women's work forever

Home and Work

Home and Work
Author: Jeanne Boydston
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1990
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780195085617

Annotation This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War. More particularly, it is a history of women's unpaid domestic labour in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States.

Wages Against Artwork

Wages Against Artwork
Author: Leigh Claire La Berge
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-08-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781478004233

The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production, circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In Wages Against Artwork Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor—the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase in the demands of work. Outlining the ways in which socially engaged artists relate to work, labor, and wages, La Berge examines how artists and organizers create institutions to address their own and others' financial precarity; why the increasing role of animals and children in contemporary art points to the turn away from paid labor; and how the expansion of MFA programs and student debt helps create the conditions for decommodified labor. In showing how socially engaged art operates within and against the need to be paid for work, La Berge offers a new theorization of the relationship between art and contemporary capitalism.

Patriarchy of the Wage

Patriarchy of the Wage
Author: Silvia Federici
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2021-08-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1629638099

At a time when we are witnessing a worldwide expansion of capitalist relations, a feminist rethinking of Marx’s work is vitally important. In Patriarchy of the Wage, Silvia Federici, bestselling author and the most important Marxist feminist of our era, asks why Marx's crucial analysis of the exploitation of human labor was 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? Patriarchy of the Wage does more than just redefine classical Marxism. It is an urgent call for a new kind of radical politics.

Re-enchanting the World

Re-enchanting the World
Author: Silvia Federici
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1629635855

Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection of her work spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative voice, Federici provides readers with an analysis of some of the key issues and debates in contemporary thinking on this subject. Drawing on rich historical research, she maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the “new enclosures” at the heart of the present phase of global capitalist accumulation. Considering the commons from a feminist perspective, this collection centers on women and reproductive work as crucial to both our economic survival and the construction of a world free from the hierarchies and divisions capital has planted in the body of the world proletariat. Federici is clear that the commons should not be understood as happy islands in a sea of exploitative relations but rather autonomous spaces from which to challenge the existing capitalist organization of life and labor.

The Problem with Work

The Problem with Work
Author: Kathi Weeks
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2011-09-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0822351129

The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.