Shortlisted for the Cundill History PrizeWhat would women do with their lives if they had more time?The riveting, untold story of a revolutionary campaign to change the way work is valuedThe women of the world are serving notice. We want wages for every dirty toilet, every indecent assault, every painful childbirth, every cup of coffee and every smile. And if we dont get what we want, we will simply refuse to work any longer! Across the globe in the 1970s, a network of feminists distilled their struggles into a single demand Wages for Housework! Today, it remains a provocative idea, and an unfulfilled promise. Here historian Emily Callaci tells the story of this campaign by exploring the lives and ideas of its key creators, tracing their wildly creative political vision over the past five decades from the early 1970s, when Selma James, a workingclass political organizer, and Mariarosa Dalla Costa, a scholaractivist, started laying the foundations of Wages for Housework in London and Italy through philosopher Silvia Federici reframing the campaign in the context of New York Citys fiscal crisis to Wilmette Brown, lesbian poet and antiwar activist, and Margaret Prescod, community organizer, who brought the insights of Black feminism to the movement. Drawing on new archival research and extensive interviews, Callaci takes us deep inside the heart of the movement as it reached across Europe, America, Africa and the Caribbean. For these women, the wage was more than a demand...

Binding: Hardback;304 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBLW3; Weight: 598 g; Dimensions: 243 x 163 x 29

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