Did the New Deal save the working class or destroy its ability to struggle for the well-being of all.

MARIAROSA DALLA COSTA is a feminist author and activist, whose seminal book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, coauthored with Selma James, has been translated into six languages. Dalla Costa's work is a keystone of social reproductive theory and the Wages for Housework campaign and she has been a central figure in the development of autonomist thought in a wide range of anticapitalist movements. She is also, with Monica Chilese, the author of Our Mother Ocean: Enclosure, Commons, and the Global Fishermen's Movement.

Foreword by Liz Mason-Deese

Preface by Silvia Federici

1. Introduction


2. Mass Production and the New Urban Family Order


3. The Crisis of 1929 and the Disruption of the Family


4. Forms of Struggle and Aggregation of the Unemployed


5. From Hoover to Roosevelt


6. Women Between Family, Welfare, and Paid Labor