{"product_id":"family-abolition-capitalism-and-the-communizing-of-care-9780745343822","title":"Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care","description":"\u003cp\u003e How do we take care of each other? Who raises us as children, is with us when we are ill, and provides a place to sleep when work is tight? We often rely on family for the care we all need. Yet even at their best families cannot carry the impossible demands placed on them, and for many, a family is a place of private horror of coercion and personal domination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e M. E. O'Brien uncovers the long history of struggles to go beyond the private family. She traces the changing family politics of racial capitalism in the industrial cities of Europe and the slavery plantations and settler frontier of North America, through the rise and fall of the housewife family. From Marx to Black and queer insurrection to today's mass protest movements, O'Brien finds revolutionary movements seeking better ways of loving, caring, and living. \u003ci\u003eFamily Abolition\u003c\/i\u003e takes us into a speculative future of the commune, imagining how care could be organized in a free society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745343822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304","brand":"M. E. O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42843591934133,"sku":"9780745343822","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3ea04c15-9310-4d14-98b3-401eb8977361.jpg?v=1681811981","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/family-abolition-capitalism-and-the-communizing-of-care-9780745343822","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}