In recent years there has been both a renewed interest in theories of social reproduction and an explosion of women’s struggles and strikes across the world. This collection offers both historical and contemporary Marxist feminist analysis of how the reproduction of labor and life functions under capitalism, using Dalla Costa’s insights into the vibrant and combative women’s movement that emerged in Italy and across the world in the early 1970s. Since the first publication of Women and the Subversion of the Community in 1972, Dalla Costa has been a central figure in the development of autonomist thought. Her detailed research and provocative thinking deepens our understanding of the role of women’s struggles for autonomy and control over their bodies and labor.

Women and the Subversion of the Community: A Mariarosa Dalla Costa Reader

Literature & Fiction

Dalla Costa, Mariarosa

History & Criticism

PM Press

Our Mother Ocean tells the story of the Global Fishermens Movement from its beginnings in Southern India to its crucial role in the global movement against neoliberal capitalism. In a time of profound economic and ecological crisis, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Monica Chilese offer a long-overdue reminder that the ocean is an integral terrain of struggle for the preservation of dignity and life.

Our Mother Ocean: Enclosure, Commons, and the Global Fishermen’s Movement

Science & Math

Chilese, Monica

Earth Sciences

Common Notions

"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.

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

Business & Money

Economics

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