FAMILY, WELFARE, AND THE STATE

Autor: DALLA COSTA; MARIAROSA
Editorial: COMMONNOTIONS.ORG
Publicado en: 2024
ISBN: 978-1-942173-53-3

“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.”