Working for Nothing
A Wages for Housework Anthology
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2026
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Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-77113-691-4 (ISBN)
Description
In the mid-1970s, a Marxist-feminist movement with revolutionary aims shook up resurgent feminism. This was the International Feminist Collective, better known as the Wages for Housework movement, a network of groups based in Europe and North America. With essays by Silvia Federici, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, Leopoldina Fortunati, Wilmette Brown, Gisela Bock, Barbara Duden, Maria Pia Turri, and more, this is the first comprehensive anthology of the key texts of the international Wages for Housework movement. The theories of these leading feminist thinkers bear witness to the originality and political strength of the social reproduction movement, which, ahead of its time, offered a revolutionary analysis of the intersections of gender, sex, race, and class.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ontario
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
20 B&W images. Anthology of primary sources
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-77113-691-4 (9781771136914)
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Person
Louise
Toupin lives in Montreal, Quebec. She has taught political science at
Universite du Quebec a Montreal. She was a member of the Quebec Women's
Liberation Front (1969-71) and co-authored numerous anthologies of activist
and feminist writings. She is the author of Wages for Housework: A History of
an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77.
Toupin lives in Montreal, Quebec. She has taught political science at
Universite du Quebec a Montreal. She was a member of the Quebec Women's
Liberation Front (1969-71) and co-authored numerous anthologies of activist
and feminist writings. She is the author of Wages for Housework: A History of
an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77.
Content
Editor's
Note
Introduction: The Current Relevance of an Idea
Louise Toupin
Meeting with two Marxist feminists | 1973
The Team of Quebecoises Deboutte
Statement of the International Feminist Collective | 1972
Women and the Subversion of the Community | 1972
Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Notice to all governments | 1974
Toronto Wages for Housework Committee
Wages Against Housework | 1975
Silvia Federici
A General Strike | 1974
Mariarosa Dalla Costa
The Houseworkers (Excerpts) | 1975
Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Sex, Race, and Class | 1975
Selma James
Wageless of the World | 1975
Selma James
Counterplanning from the Kitchen (Excerpts) | 1975
Silvia Federici with Nicole Cox
Lesbian and Straight | 1975
Wages Due Collective, Toronto
Love as Labour-Labour as Love: On the Genesis of Housework under Capitalism
| 1976
Gisela Bock and Barbara Duden, Lohn fuer Hausarbeit
The Autonomy of Black Lesbian Women | 1976
Wilmette Brown, Black Women for Wages for Housework
An Attack Against Prostitutes Is an Attack on All Women | 1977
Wages for Housework-San Francisco and Los Angeles Housework Wage
Committee
Money for Prostitutes is Money for Black Women | 1977
Black Women for Wages for Housework
School from the Perspective of Women | 1978
Maria Pia Turri
The Wages for Housework Perspective | 1977
Collectif L'Insoumise, Geneva
Earning Your Way to Heaven or Earning a Living? | 1981
Sylvie Dupont, La vie en rose collective
The Arcana of Reproduction, Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers, and Capital
(Introduction) | 1981
Leopoldina Fortunati
Afterword: We Are Nothing, Let Us Be Everything!
Valerie Simard
Acknowledgments
Note
Introduction: The Current Relevance of an Idea
Louise Toupin
Meeting with two Marxist feminists | 1973
The Team of Quebecoises Deboutte
Statement of the International Feminist Collective | 1972
Women and the Subversion of the Community | 1972
Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Notice to all governments | 1974
Toronto Wages for Housework Committee
Wages Against Housework | 1975
Silvia Federici
A General Strike | 1974
Mariarosa Dalla Costa
The Houseworkers (Excerpts) | 1975
Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Sex, Race, and Class | 1975
Selma James
Wageless of the World | 1975
Selma James
Counterplanning from the Kitchen (Excerpts) | 1975
Silvia Federici with Nicole Cox
Lesbian and Straight | 1975
Wages Due Collective, Toronto
Love as Labour-Labour as Love: On the Genesis of Housework under Capitalism
| 1976
Gisela Bock and Barbara Duden, Lohn fuer Hausarbeit
The Autonomy of Black Lesbian Women | 1976
Wilmette Brown, Black Women for Wages for Housework
An Attack Against Prostitutes Is an Attack on All Women | 1977
Wages for Housework-San Francisco and Los Angeles Housework Wage
Committee
Money for Prostitutes is Money for Black Women | 1977
Black Women for Wages for Housework
School from the Perspective of Women | 1978
Maria Pia Turri
The Wages for Housework Perspective | 1977
Collectif L'Insoumise, Geneva
Earning Your Way to Heaven or Earning a Living? | 1981
Sylvie Dupont, La vie en rose collective
The Arcana of Reproduction, Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers, and Capital
(Introduction) | 1981
Leopoldina Fortunati
Afterword: We Are Nothing, Let Us Be Everything!
Valerie Simard
Acknowledgments