Family, Welfare, and the State Between Progressivism and the New Deal, Second Edition

• This new edition is the first to be distributed and promoted widely in the US

• The new material contextualizes why Family, Welfare, and the State is more needed and relevant than ever.

• Through the fight for a host of pandemic relief packages, stimulus payments, and the campaign to raise the minimum wage people are organizing and winning against increasing abandonment and workforce vulnerability.

• Dalla Costa lays out how race, class, and especially the family were reconfigured and forced into the role of ensuring the reproduction of the capitalist workforce.

• She makes clear how the New Deal inscribed the heterosexual nuclear family as the "valued" and "approved" form of social organization.

• Family Welfare and the State makes clear that a pandemic new deal has to be feminist and recognize the unpaid and exploited labor at the heart of social reproduction.

• Dalla Costa's research and analysis played an important part in the development of her seminal work: The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community and her work with Silvia Federici in the Wages for Housework campaigns.

• The work of Silvia and Mariarosa has been receiving broader attention than it ever has before-including features in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and inclusion in the Smithsonian Museum.

• The authors-together and individually-will be available to media and panels on the direction of social movements.