The Labor Of Love
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The Wages for Housework Movement and the Language of Care
Sylvia Federici believed compensating Housework could spark a revolution in gender roles. The welfare rights movement didn't use a language of care and the wages for Housework movement actually wrote very critically of the language of care. Once the work was considered a word, men would do it too. In just as the welfare rights movement understood the power of narratives, of the words they used, the wages forHousework movement made sure to keep things like care and love out of the conversation.
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