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Wages for housework : a history of an international feminist movement, 1972-77
- Title
- Wages for housework : a history of an international feminist movement, 1972-77 / Louise Toupin ; translated by Käthe Roth.
- Author
- Toupin, Louise, 1946-
- Publication
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press ; London : Pluto Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Roth, Käthe
- Description
- x, 323 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In this first-ever international history of the divisive and influential feminist movement Wages for Housework, Louise Toupin draws on extensive archival research and interviews with the movement's founders and activists from Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, and Canada. Featuring previously unpublished conversations with Silvia Federici and Mariarosa Dalla Costa, the book highlights the power and originality of the movement, detailing its theoretical and organizational innovations around the multifaceted and unrecognized forms of labour performed largely by women. Challenging both classic Marxist theory and the mainstream women's movement, Wages for Housework organized in the 1970s around the idea that domestic or "reproductive" labour is as crucial for the survival of the capitalist system as more typically male "productive" labour, and is therefore a central site of not only feminist but also anti-capitalist struggle. Its activists demanded the wage as a way of insisting that housework's value be recognized. These ideas are still hotly debated around the world today. Wages for Housework is a major contribution to the history of feminist and anti-capitalist movements, and a provocative intervention into contemporary conversations about theory, tactics, and strategy for confronting the changing nature of work, cultural norms, and the gendered labour market."--
- Uniform Title
- Salaire au travail ménager. English
- Alternative Title
- Salaire au travail ménager.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-314) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Contents
- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: A Political and Personal History -- Part 1: The International Feminist Collective -- Historical Overview and Political Perspective -- 1. 1972: Wages for Housework in the Universe of Feminism -- 2. A Wage as a Lever for Power: The Political Perspective -- 3. The International Feminist Collective, 1972-77 -- Part 2: Mobilizations around Women's Invisible Work Overview -- 4. Mobilizations around Women's Invisible Work in the Home -- 5. Mobilizations around Women's Invisible Work outside the Home -- 6. Mobilizations by Groups on the Periphery of the Network: Lohn für Hausarbeit in Berlin and Collectif L'Insoumise in Geneva -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- From Yesterday to Today: The Intellectual Journeys of Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Silvia Federici, from 1977 to 2013 -- Interview with Mariarosa Dalla Costa Interview with Silvia Federici -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1412
- ISBN
- 0745338682
- 9780745338682
- 9780745338675
- 0745338674
- 9780774837644
- 0774837640
- 9780774837637
- 0774837632
- LCCN
- 2018420343
- OCLC
- 1028622313
- Author
- Toupin, Louise, 1946- author.
- Title
- Wages for housework : a history of an international feminist movement, 1972-77 / Louise Toupin ; translated by Käthe Roth.
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC : UBC Press ; London : Pluto Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First English-language edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-314) and index.
- Language
- Translated from the French.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Roth, Käthe, translator.
- Translation Of:
- Translation of: Toupin, Louise, 1946- Salaire au travail ménager. Montréal, Québec : Les Éditions du Remue-ménage, [2014] 9782890914940 (DLC) 2015375499 (OCoLC)902812798
- Other Form:
- Toupin, Louise, 1946- Salaire au travail ménager. English. Wages for housework. Vancouver ; Toronto : Pluto Press : UBC Press, 2018 (CaOONL)20189039949
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1412