Wages for housework

The International Wages for Housework Campaign (IWFHC) is a grassroots women's network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside. It was started in 1972 by Mariarosa Dalla Costa,^[1] Silvia Federici,^[2] Brigitte Galtier, and Selma James^[3] who first put forward the demand for wages for housework. At the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester, England, the IWFHC states that they begin with those with least power internationally – unwaged workers in the home (mothers, housewives, domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged subsistence farmers and workers on the land and in the community. They consider the demand for wages for unwaged caring work to be also a perspective and a way of organizing from the bottom up, of autonomous sectors working together to end the power relations among them.

^ Dalla Costa, M. & James, S. (1972). The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community[1]
^ Cox, N. & Federici, S. (1975).[2]Counter-Planning from the Kitchen: Wages for Housework a Perspective on Capital and the Left.
^ Gardiner, B. (2012). A Life in Writing. Interview with Selma James.

[Costa-1] Dalla Costa, M. & James, S. (1972). The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community[1]

[Cox-2] Cox, N. & Federici, S. (1975).[2]Counter-Planning from the Kitchen: Wages for Housework a Perspective on Capital and the Left.

[Gardiner-3] Gardiner, B. (2012). A Life in Writing. Interview with Selma James.

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