Working for Nothing
A Wages for Housework Anthology
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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Contents
| Editor’s Note | |
| Introduction: The Current Relevance of an Idea | Louise Toupin |
| Meeting with two Marxist feminists | 1973 | Québécoises 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 Women Who Work at Home (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 |
| The Labour of Love, Love as Labour. On the Genesis of Housework under Capitalism | 1976 | Gisela Bock and Barbara Duden, Lohn für 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 Prospect of a Wage for Housework | 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! | Valérie Simard |
| Acknowledgments |
