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It is not prioritized economically, politically, or socially, and women are discriminated against and impoverished for doing it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis much-anticipated follow-up to her first anthology, Sex, Race, and Class, compiles several decades of James's work with a focus on more recent writings, including a groundbreaking analysis of two of CLR James's masterpieces, The Black Jacobins and Beyond a Boundary, and an account of her formative partnership with him. Her experience in the movement for Caribbean federation and independence is reflected in her introduction to Ujamaa, the socialism that Tanzanian villagers built, and in her work with Guyana, Haiti, and Venezuela.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSteeped in the tradition of Marx urging the need for a \"practical movement,\" James recounts the unusual history of how autonomous organizations formed within the International Wages for Housework Campaign and reshaped it. 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Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as \"workers\" and their struggles viewed as outside of the class struggle. Based on her political training in the Johnson-Forest Tendency, founded by her late husband C.L.R. James, on movement experience South and North, and on a respectful study of Marx, she redefined the working class to include sectors previously dismissed as \"marginal.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor James, the class struggle presents itself as the conflict between the reproduction and survival of the human race, and the domination of the market with its exploitation, wars, and ecological devastation. She sums up her strategy for change as \"Invest in Caring not Killing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis selection, spanning six decades, traces the development of this perspective in the course of building an international campaigning network. It includes excerpts from the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community which launched the \"domestic labor debate,\" the exciting \"Hookers in the House of the Lord\" which describes a church occupation by sex workers, an incisive review of the C.L.R. James masterpiece The Black Jacobins, a reappraisal of the novels of Jean Rhys and of the leadership of Julius Nyerere, the groundbreaking \"Marx and Feminism,\" and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe writing is lucid and without jargon. 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