Silvia Federici, Reproduction and the Commons

We are glad to announce the lecture of Silvia Federici as part of the series “Commons and Multitude”, moderated by Massimo De Angelis, within the course of Superstudio of Roberto Gargiani. 
Silvia Federici is one of the most influential contemporary socialist feminist thinkers and activists. Federici has played a fundamental role for the political definition of reproductive labor, and its importance within the productive cycle of capitalism. Her main discovery as an activist in early 70s, when she founded the Wages for Housework movement, was that domestic work, within the household, is unwaged labor. She argues that domestic work is a form of gendered economic oppression and an exploitation upon which all of capitalism rests. Recently she has also argued on the fact of how the economy during lockdown exploits women. 
Federici is author of many seminal books such as Genere e Capitale, Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, Caliban and the Witch and Re-enchanting The World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.