Family, Welfare, and the State: Between Progressivism and the New Deal

Dalla Costa, Mariarosa/ Federici, Silvia (Foreward By)/ Alcazar, Magally A. Miranda (Afterword)/ Capanna, Rafaella (Translator)

ISBN 10: 1942173539 / ISBN 13: 9781942173533

Editore: Common Notions, 2021

2nd edition. 160 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. Codice articolo 1942173539

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“Dalla Costa shows that with the New Deal, the state began to plan the ‘social factory’—that is, the home, the family, the school, and above all women’s labor, on which the productivity and pacification of industrial relations was made to rest.”—Silvia Federici

In a groundbreaking study, Family, Welfare, and the State offers a comprehensive reading of the welfare system through the dynamics of women's resistance and class struggle. Mariarosa Dalla Costa, a key figure in the International Wages for Housework campaigns, highlights how the New Deal concretized the central role of women and the family in ensuring the capacity for economic growth and the reproduction of labor power necessary for the maintenance of capitalism. As social movements fight for and secure government relief for mass unemployment in a way not seen for decades, it is essential to understand how the deals—especially governing race, class, and family relations—struck by earlier generations of activists have shaped our world. A new foreword makes clear Dalla Costa’s importance to understanding the functioning of social reproduction in a world ravaged by COVID-19.

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Titolo: Family, Welfare, and the State: Between ...
Casa editrice: Common Notions
Data di pubblicazione: 2021
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Brand New
Edizione: seconda edizione