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"All work is sh*t" or the anti Girl Boss feminism of the 1970s (with Emily Callaci)

March 24 · 43 min · Season 1 · Episode 3 · 41.7 MB
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In the 1970s, Wages for Housework demanded pay for cooking and cleaning without any illusions about making it in the workplace. What if work was never our liberator? 


On this episode:

  • Isabelle Roughol - Host
  • Emily Callaci - Guest

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Chapters: 

  • (00:00) - MEMBERS 03 Wages for Housework (Emily Callaci)
  • (01:32) - Addressing housework in the women's right struggle
  • (02:51) - Two workers for the price of one
  • (04:02) - "All work is shit"
  • (07:53) - Not wages for housewives
  • (10:45) - Biographies of 5 campaign leaders
  • (11:21) - Selma James
  • (13:50) - Mariarosa Dalla Costa
  • (15:39) - Silvia Federici
  • (17:51) - Wilmette Brown
  • (19:59) - Margaret Prescott
  • (22:23) - Welfare
  • (26:55) - How far did the movement go?
  • (29:34) - The care work of the climate crisis
  • (32:41) - How housework got remarketed as care work
  • (36:50) - How the campaign ended
  • (38:46) - The long tail legacy of Wages for Housework