Join Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh, and George
Caffentzis for a discussion on Reproduction, Labor, and Capital at the
Omni (4799 Shattuck Ave) in Oakland on Saturday, March 22nd. Please
click the link below for details.
George is author of In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism. Silvia is author of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle.
Peter is author of Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance.
George will present his latest work, In Letters of Blood and Fire:
Work, Machines, and Value (PM Press, 2013) a collection of essays that
draw upon a careful reading of Marx's thought to elucidate political
concerns encompassing twenty-first-century capitalism, information
technology, immaterial production, financialization, and globalization.
Emphasizing class struggles that have proliferated across the social
body of global capitalism, Caffentzis shows how a wide range of
conflicts and antagonisms in the labor-capital relation express
themselves within and against the work process. He will also discuss his
recent PM release, The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual.
Sylvia Federici's Revolution at Point Zero (PM Press, 2012) collects
forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework,
social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain—to escape it,
to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an
alternative to capitalist relations. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind
the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in
“alienated labor” is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice
upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective
reproduction. Beginning with Federici’s organizational work in the Wages
for Housework movement, the essays collected here unravel the power and
politics of wide but related issues including the international
restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual
division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the
crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the
politics of the commons.
Peter's Stop, Thief! is a majestic
tour de force that akes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the
seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the
removers of mountaintops. Scarcely a society has existed on the face of
the earth that has not had commoning at its heart. "Neither the state
nor the market," say the planetary commoners. These essays kindle the
embers of memory to ignite our future commons.
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