24 mars 2026
44 min
"All work is sh*t" or the anti Girl Boss feminism of the 1970s (with Emily Callaci)
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
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