Description:
Bringing together leading scholars and activists, this edited collection calls for a return to the 'mode of production debate' to address often-overlooked dimensions: gender, race, and Eurocentrism.
The concept of mode of production is placed in dialogue with Marxist debates on domestic labour, racial capitalism and the ways in which Eurocentrism has shaped the historiographies of capitalism. In doing so, the book offers novel approaches to studying the origins, modalities and contradictions of capitalism.
Advancing an integrated framework that incorporates class, gender, race and ethnicity, the book opens pathways to new research for better understanding, resisting and transcending capitalism.
Review Quotes: "This remarkable volume offers a bold and necessary rethinking of the 'mode of production' through the prisms of domestic and social reproduction, racial capitalism, and decolonial critique. By weaving together rigorous theoretical inquiry with rich historical analysis, the editors and contributors illuminate the capitalist mode of production as a variegated and contested process--one that cannot be understood without grappling with the intertwined dynamics of exploitation and racialisation. Refusing both reductive economism and Eurocentric narratives, this collection brings together an impressive range of voices--Federici, Mezzadri, Banaji, van der Linden, and others--to reopen critical debates and chart new directions in radical political economy. An indispensable resource for scholars and students seeking to understand capitalism in all its fractured, global complexity", Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine, Italy.