At a time when we are witnessing a worldwide expansion of capitalist
relations, a feminist rethinking of Marx’s work is vitally
important. In Patriarchy of the Wage, Silvia Federici,
bestselling author and the most important Marxist feminist of our
era, asks why Marx's crucial analysis of the exploitation of human
labor was blind to women’s work and struggle on the terrain of
social reproduction. Why was Marx unable to anticipate the profound
transformations in the proletarian family that took place at the turn
of the nineteenth century creating a new patriarchal regime?
Patriarchy of the Wage does more than just redefine classical
Marxism. It is an urgent call for a new kind of radical politics.