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Les frontières unilatérales entre l’Europe et l’Afrique assurent au système colonial-capitaliste son bon fonctionnement. Si les Africains pouvaient se déplacer librement vers l’Europe, à l’instar des Européens vers l’Afrique, les entreprises européennes ne pourraient plus sous-payer les Africains par rapport aux Européens.

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.

Day care centers and nurseries have never liberated any time for ourselves, but only our time for additional work.

At present articulate minorities–often claiming the leadership of majorities–seek equal treatment. If one day they were to seek equal work rather than equal pay–equal inputs rather than equal outputs–they could be the pivot of social reconstruction. Industrial society could not possibly resist a strong women’s movement, for example, which would lea

What is needed is the reopening of a collective struggle over reproduction, reclaiming control over the material conditions of our reproduction and creating new forms of cooperation around this work outside of the logic of capital and the market.

Despite the efforts that futuristic industrialists are making, we cannot robotize “care” except at a terrible cost for the people involved.

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As a child, I saw her work; later, as a feminist, I learned to see her struggle, and I realized how much love there had been in that work, yet how costly it had been for my mother to see it so often taken for granted, to never be able to dispose of some money of her own, and to always have to depend on my father for every penny she spent.