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) - 03 Wages for Housework (Emily Callaci)
• (01:31) - Addressing housework in the women's right struggle
• (02:50) - Two workers for the price of one
• (04:00) - "All work is shit"
• (07:51) - Not wages for housewives
• (10:43) - Biographies of 5 campaign leaders
• (11:20) - Selma James
• (13:48) - Mariarosa Dalla Costa
• (15:38) - Silvia Federici
• (17:49) - Wilmette Brown
• (19:58) - Margaret Prescott
• (22:21) - Welfare
• (26:53) - How far did the movement go?
• (29:32) - The care work of the climate crisis
• (32:39) - How housework got remarketed as care work
• (36:48) - How the campaign ended
• (38:45) - The long tail legacy of Wages for Housework