Must Work Suck So Much? | Part 5: Production and Reproduction
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Wages for Housework
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The 1970s feminist campaign that challenged the distinction between productive and reproductive labor, demanding recognition that domestic work is real work. Directly relevant to the article's feminist approach to politicizing work and the production/reproduction framework.
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Silvia Federici
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Italian-American scholar and activist whose work on wages for housework and the relationship between capitalism, reproduction, and women's labor provides essential theoretical background for understanding how feminists have politicized unpaid work—a central theme of this article.
Must Work Suck So Much? | Part 5: Production and Reproduction
In previous parts of this series, we saw how work is depoliticized when it is relegated to the private realm of individual choice. Working to politicize work in much the same ways that feminists have politicized the family and marriage allow us to see a structural system of rewards and punishments that condition these “personal choices…
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