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The International Wages for Housework Campaign (IWFHC) is a grassroots women's network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside. It was started in 1972 by Mariarosa Dalla Costa, [1] Silvia Federici, [2] Brigitte Galtier, and Selma James [3] who first put
Silvia Federici (born 1942) is an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and Marxist feminist activist based in New York. [2] She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University in New York State , where she was a social science professor. [ 3 ]
The radical idea of wages for housework was first proposed by a woman named Selma James — in 1972, at the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester, England.
A Wages for Housework group was founded in Brooklyn, New York with the help of Federici. [16] As Heidi Hartmann acknowledges (1981), the efforts of these movements, though ultimately unsuccessful, generated important discourse regarding the value of housework and its relation to the economy.
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Many of these women, including Selma James, [11] Mariarosa Dalla Costa, [12] Brigitte Galtier, and Silvia Federici [13] published a range of sources to promote their message in academic and public domains. Despite beginning as a small group of women in Italy, the Wages for Housework Campaign was successful in mobilizing on an international level.
Federici states that "If we consider the historical context in which the witch hunt occurred, the gender and class of the accused, and the effects of persection", then the inevitable conclusion is that it was an attack (premeditated or not) on "women's resistance to the spread of capitalist relations and the power that women had gained by ...
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