Sublime

Through my involvement in the women’s movement I realized that the reproduction of human beings is the foundation of every economic and political system, and that the immense amount of paid and unpaid domestic work done by women in the home is what keeps the world moving.

since nothing would so quickly desexualize housework as a paycheck for it.

the production of workers and of unequal power relations aiming to keep the labor force divided remains the main capitalist enterprise, as it was at the dawn of capitalism.

Their main concern was to demonstrate the fundamental differences between housework and other types of work; unmask the process of naturalization this work had undergone because of its unwaged condition; show the specific capitalist nature and functioning of the wage; and demonstrate that historically the question of “productivity” has always been

For we are not struggling for a more equal redistribution of the same work. We are struggling to put an end to this work, and the first step is to put a price tag on it.

the anticolonial movement taught us to expand the Marxian analysis of unwaged labor beyond the confines of the factory and, therefore, to see the home and housework as the foundations of the factory system, rather than its “other.”

For our wagelessness and our dependence have kept men tied to their jobs, by ensuring that whenever they wanted to refuse their work they would be faced with the wife and children who depended on their wage.

OUR STRUGGLE FOR THE WAGE OPENS FOR THE WAGED AND THE UNWAGED ALIKE THE QUESTION OF THE REAL LENGTH OF THE WORKING DAY.

The wage and the lack of it have allowed capital to obscure the real length of our working day.