In this episode, Eva tells Emma about the 1970's "Wages for Housework" movement, an international campaign calling for housework and care work to be compensated. They discuss the movement's radical grassroots origins, different feminist perspectives on the gendered division of labour, and the legacy of the movement in today's working and home life. Digressions include conversations about training squirrels and cleaning up roommate's beard hair.
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Reading List:
Wendy Edmond, All Work and No Pay : women, housework, and the wages due
Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work For Mother
Louise Toupin, The History of Wages for Housework
Gender difference in housework stats
Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Women and the Subversion of the Community
image: poster from the See Red Women's Workshop