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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
Selma James (born Selma Deitch; formerly Weinstein; August 15, 1930) is an American writer, and feminist and social activist who is co-author of the women's movement book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (with Mariarosa Dalla Costa), co-founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and coordinator of the Global Women's Strike.
The International Wages for Housework Campaign was a global, social movement co-founded in 1972 in Padua, Italy, by author and activist Selma James. The Campaign was formed to raise awareness of how housework and childcare are the base of all industrial work and to stake the claim that these unavoidable tasks should be compensated as paid, wage ...
The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 across the river into Selma at the north end of the CDP. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.3 square miles (8.6 km 2), of which 3.3 square miles (8.5 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2), or 1.17%, is water. [3]
Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, [1] in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west. Located on the banks of the Alabama River, the city has a population of 17,971 as of the 2020 census. [3]
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James Perkins, Jr. – first African American mayor of Selma [51] Edmund Pettus – U.S. Senator from 1897 to 1907, Brigadier General CSA [52] Jeff Sessions – United States Senator [53] Terri Sewell – 2010 Democratic representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district [54]
In the meantime, James King, president of Delaware County Commissioners, said they will see about providing Selma with about $200,000 in American Rescue Plan funds that are left over from pandemic ...