4. Wages Against Housework
Silvia Federici 1974
They say it is love.
We say it is unwaged work.
They call it frigidity.
We call it absenteeism.
Every miscarriage is a work accident.
Homosexuality and heterosexuality are both working conditions. . .
but homosexuality is workers’ control of production, not the end of work.
More smiles? More money. Nothing will be so powerful in destroying the healing virtues of a smile.
Neuroses, suicides, desexualization: occupational diseases of the housewife.
Many times the difficulties and ambiguities which women express in discussing wages forhousework stem from the fact that they reduce wages for housework to a thing, a lump of
money, instead of viewing it as a political per- spective. The difference between these two
standpoints is...
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