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Estelle Platini
Estelle Platini
@estelle@techhub.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 years ago

Throughout the 1970s, the Wages for Housework movement developed an analysis of women’s reproductive labour, “housework” broadly conceived, as a primary site for mobilization.
Silvia Federici was a cofounder of the movement, working within the New York Wages for Housework Committee from 1972 to 1977.

Sarah Jaffa has reviewed her book: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wages-for-houseworks-radical-vision/

#domesticLabour #houseWork #unpaid #care #NYC #history #feminism #family #home #parenting #maleSupremacy #SilviaFederici

The Nation

The Women of Wages for Housework

A new book edited by Silvia Federici and Arlen Austin helps  capture the excitement and ideas of a movement that had modest origins but spread around the world within several years.
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Estelle Platini
Estelle Platini
@estelle@techhub.social  ·  activity timestamp 8 months ago

"I put laundry in the machine, forget about it — wet, unspun — and find it dried and folded in the basket. The dishwasher gets unloaded before I even notice it is on. Sometimes one of us has a hard day and disappears while the other two pick up the slack. Sometimes two of us are down and there’s still one left to make beans on toast for dinner. These are not spectacular acts, but they are the glue."

A personal essay by @kristiedegaris: https://archive.ph/AgiTR#selection-1953.113-1953.513

#parenting #cohabiting #domesticLabour #houseWork #unpaid #care #Scotland #feminism #family #home #logistics #ADHD

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