That thing about women's unpaid labor? I interviewed Margaret Prescod about it. In 2006.
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"I personally came up with the idea of compensating women for their unpaid labor!" *picks up dalla costa's 1972 classic* *blinks*
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Also: Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James's analysis was so on point. Can't say the same for uninspiring analysis I've read recently.
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Marx broke down how capital functions/rules and how it fundamentally develops through *wage.* But oops he left out the non-wage worker.
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But non-wage worker is also organized and exploited by wage system. The especially disturbing part of this is that non-wage work is hidden.
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Women work in isolation in the home; they're kept away from the social education process and from social knowledge. Esp in times past.
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The exclusion of women -- but also of children, of people with disabilities, of elders -- this has been created by capitalist organization.
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omg they're writing on this stuff... so amazing. Including whose dignity is valued. And what that means for the rest of us.
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Dalla Costa and James wrote about the way that parties and trade unions force women to put off their liberation until a later date...
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... basically, making us depend on the gains of men. Like I said, so. on. point.
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All of this is part of the broader conversations between women around the world. This is just one book that came to mind tonight.
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Oh and *actually* confronting all this stuff isn't about very thin, very pale, very conventionally pretty women getting free gifts from men.
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