Wages For Housework

A history of the feminist movement that changed how we see women's work forever

Compilation of documents and texts from The New York Wages for Housework Committee 1972-1977 and from other branches of the Wages for Housework movement.

Annotation This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War. More particularly, it is a history of women's unpaid domestic labour in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States.

The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.

Behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in "alienated labour" is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction.