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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- One: Counterplanning from the Kitchen -- Two: Capital and the Left -- Three: Gender and Reproduction in Marx's Capital -- Four: Marx, Feminism, and the Construction of the Commons -- Five: Revolution Begins at Home: Rethinking Marx, Reproduction, and the Class Struggle -- Six: The Construction of Domestic Work in Nineteenth-Century England and the Patriarchy of the Wage -- Seven: Origins and Development of Sexual Work in the United States and Britain -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

"Written between 1974 and the present, Revolution at Point Zero 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."...Publisher description

Cover -- Half title page -- Full title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- Lecture One: The Body, Capitalism, and the Reproduction of Labor Power -- Lecture Two: "Body Politics" in the Feminist Revolt -- Lecture Three: The Body in Today's Reproductive Crisis -- PART TWO -- On the Body, Gender, and Performance -- Remaking Our Bodies, Remaking the World? -- Surrogate Motherhood: A Gift of Life or Maternity Denied? -- PART THREE -- With Philosophy, Psychology, and Terror: Transforming Bodies into Labor Power -- Origins and Development of Sexual Work in the United States and Britain -- Mormons in Space Revisited -- PART FOUR -- In Praise of the Dancing Body -- On Joyful Militancy -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

Tłumaczenie rozdziału książki Re-enchanting the World. Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (2019) Silvii Federici. Autorka polemizuje tu z opiniami, które przypisują rozwojowi technologii i komputeryzacji społecznie wyzwalającą funkcję. Wykazuje, że postęp technologiczny pokrywa się z rosnącą skalą wyzysku, ale także z "historią dezakumulacji" dóbr wspólnych i przedkapitalistycznych umiejętności, związanych z bezpośrednim i niesprywatyzowanym kontaktem ze światem przyrody. W drugiej części Federici pokazuje, w jaki sposób walki w obronie dóbr wspólnych, toczone najczęściej przez kobiety, zyskują dziś zasadnicze i globalne znaczenie. Opowiada się też po stronie pracy reprodukcyjnej jako odpowiedzialnej i paradoksalnie subwersywnej strategii przydatnej w obliczu politycznego i ekologicznego kryzysu.

Margaret Benston's "The Political Economy of Women's Liberation" appears as both a return to the past and, at the same time, if not a "watershed," as described by Peter Custers, certainly a new turn. On the one hand, she reiterated the classic Marxist-Leninist argument concerning the precapitalist, premarket character of domestic work. On the other, she so strongly insisted on the importance of this work for the stability and perpetuation of the capitalist system that she not only anticipated some of the theses later argued by theorists in the Wages for Housework Campaign, but often fell into apparent contradictions.