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Average rating3.8
This is in no way a bad book. I really enjoyed the last essay of the volume on the development of sexual work in the US and Britain (except for the unabashed Freud-bashing, but that was expected). However, I found the way in which the essays were arranged to be a little tedious (to a savvy Federici reader), circling around pretty much the same thing, using the same examples and the same quotes over and over again. I almost feel like this could have been rewritten to make up one single essay on the concept of “the patriarchy of the wage”, instead of every essay introducing a small piece of missing information or a little new idea of some sort. Although there's clearly a lot of value in introducing the reader to the classics such as “Counterplanning from the Kitchen” in their original form, Federici's 2012 book Revolution at Point Zero does, in my opinion, a better job since it both reproduces her older classic texts and deals with a variety of subjects.