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Revolution at Point Zero
Author(s): Silvia Federici (Author)
- Publisher: PM Press
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 1604863331
- ISBN-13: 9781604863338
Book Description
The essays collected in this volume represent the years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalisation. Originally inspired by Federici’s organisational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the topics discussed include the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labour, the globalisation of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care and development of affective labour. A brief history of the feminist movement and a contemporary critique of capitalism.
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Review
Federici argues that liberation is not be found in refusing either reproductive labour or waged work but in the radical transformation of both. —Red Pepper
While providing a powerful history of the changes in the organization of reproductive labor, Revolution at Point Zero documents the development of Federici’s thought on some of the most important questions of our time: globalization, gender relations, the construction of new commons. —
Mariarosa Dalla Costa, co-author of The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community and Our Mother OceanAbout the Author
Silvia Federici is a feminist activist, a writer, and a teacher. She is the author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation, the editor of Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its Others,” and the coeditor of A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities. She is a cofounder of the International Feminist Collective and the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and a former professor of international studies, women’s studies, and political philosophy at Hofstra University. She lives in New York City.
