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The Left Book Club Presents: Bread and Roses, by Andrea D’Atri

The Left Book Club presents Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism, by Andrea D’Atri. Join an online event with Andrea D’Atri, Camille Barbagallo and Alessandra Mezzadri as they discuss perspectives to dismantle capitalist patriarchy and develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind. March 10th, 7pm BST / 2pm EST.

Left Voice

March 7, 2022
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The Left Book Club presents Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism, by Andrea D’Atri. Join an online event with Andrea D’Atri, Camille Barbagallo and Alessandra Mezzadri as they discuss perspectives to dismantle capitalist patriarchy and develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind. March 10th, 7pm BST / 2pm EST.

***This event will be livestreamed on YouTube. Please register here for the YouTube Livestream link!***

Andrea D’Atri’s book, Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism, is now available from Pluto Press. Check out the preface to the English edition.

Andrea D’Atri is the author of Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism. She is the founder of the Argentinian women’s organisation, Pan Y Rosas (Bread and Roses), one of the largest socialist women’s organisations in the world. She is also a psychologist and specialist in women’s studies. 

Camille Barbagallo is a feminist activist and organiser with the Women’s Strike Assembly and currently works as a Senior Strategist shifting global finance out of fossil fuels. She was previously the coordinator of the COP26 Coalition that mobilised over 250,000 to take the streets in November 2021 to demand climate justice. Her research engages specifically with Marxist feminist theories of social reproduction and she examines the value of social reproduction, what it costs and who pays the bill. 

Alessandra Mezzadri is a Feminist Political Economist based at SOAS, London, where she is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies. She teaches and writes on supply chain capitalism and labour regimes; the global sweatshops; labour standards, CSR, Modern Slavery and ethical consumerism; feminisms in development and social reproduction approaches; India’s political economy; and Marxian feminist methods for field-based research. She is the author of The Sweatshop Regime: Labouring Bodies, Exploitation and Garments ‘Made in India’ (Cambridge University Press, 2017, 2020) and editor of Marx in the Field (Anthem, 2001). 

***This event will be livestreamed on YouTube. Please register here for the YouTube Livestream link!***

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