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

by Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Silvia Federici (Preface) and Rafaella Capanna (Translator)

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The attack on welfare was, and is, an attack on our class autonomy, structured to maintain a patriarchal and racist order, drive divisions, and disrupt our ability to collectively refuse capital's exploitation and the state's discipline.

Mariarosa Dalla Costa's Family, Welfare and the State powerfully reminds us that the welfare system can only be understood through the dynamics of resistance and struggle, and women have been at the center of it.

In reflecting on the history of struggles around the New Deal in which workers' initiatives forced a new relationship with the state on the terrain of social reproduction...

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  • ISBN10 1942173016
  • ISBN13 9781942173014
  • Publish Date 1 October 2015
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Common Notions
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 128
  • Language English