All work and no pay : women, housework, and the wages due / edited by Wendy Edmond and Suzie Fleming.

Date:
1975
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Description

"This book describes women’s lives and struggles through the speeches and writings of different women from many countries. It shows how all women – young or old, single or married, with or without children, ‘straight’ or lesbian – whatever else they do, are housewives. It makes clear how universal is women’s need for a wage for housework, and that an international movement of women demanding the ‘wages due’ is not only possible but already a reality."--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

[London] : Power of Women Collective ; Bristol : Falling Wall Press, 1975.

Physical description

127 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

If women were paid for all they do. The international perspective. The housewife / Polda Fortunati -- Lesbian and straight / Wages Due Collective -- Wageless of the world / Selma James -- All in a Day's Work. Living through the crisis / Rose Craig, Joyce Luck, Bernadette Maharaj -- The single housewife / Wendy Edmond, Esther Ronay -- Lesbian women: love and power / Lesbian women, Power of Women Collective -- No end to the working day / Ellen Jensen -- I nterview with a shoplifter / E.W. -- Women and the unions / Selma James -- This is nursing. Introduction to a struggle -- A job like any other / Patricia Matthews -- Breaking the chain of command / Lizzie Stuart -- The home in the hospital / Power of Women Collective -- General strike. Family allowance: the woman's money / Suzie Fleming -- Married to the state / Monica Sjoo -- Mother-led union / Frances Gregory -- Asian women strike / Mala Dhondy -- Organising on the second job / Jane Hirschmann -- Northern Island : the power of the ghetto / Some women from the Power of Women Collective -- Deciding for our selves / Three Leaflets -- Sisters why march? / Los Angeles Wages for Housework Committee -- A general strike / Mariarose Dalla Costa.

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    History of Medicine
    CBW.U
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ISBN

  • 0950270229
  • 9780950270227