No Captives
OUR STRUGGLE FOR THE WAGE OPENS FOR THE WAGED AND THE UNWAGED ALIKE THE QUESTION OF THE REAL LENGTH OF THE WORKING DAY.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
the seeming self-valorization hides high levels of unpaid labor and makes workers acceptant of constantly deferred rewards and total expendability since they can be immediately dismissed if they cease to be “fun,” “sometimes even before a job is finished.”32
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
The wage and the lack of it have allowed capital to obscure the real length of our working day.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
Regardless of how landlords came to own property—sweat, intelligence, or ingenuity for some; inheritance, luck, or fraud for others—rising rents mean more money for landlords and less for tenants. Their fates are bound and their interests opposed. If the profits of urban landlords were modest, that would be one thing. But often they are not. The an
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