Book description
For over sixty years, Selma James has been organizing from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and caring work, reproduce the whole human race—whatever else they do. This work goes on almost unnoticed everywhere, in every culture. It is not prioritized economically, politically, or socially, and women…
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The latest work by one of the most inspirational and debated figures in women's politics across the 20th and 21st centuries, this book has given me enormous inspiration by showing what a truly internationalist and grassroots feminist politics looks like and how it is relevant to climate politics today.
I have discovered that the 'wages for housework' campaign, initiated by James and others in 1972, has continued throughout fifty years on the international level, evolving into today's 'care income' demand, which emerged out of the Green New Deal for Europe campaign in 2019. This is where I met James and…
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