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Wages for housework: the daring 1970s campaign that challenged women's roles

History Extra podcast

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Origins, Theory, and the Wage Demand

Callaci explains what drew her to the topic, postwar gender roles, the 1972 founding by Selma James and Maria Rosa Dalla Costa, who the campaign represented, and why demanding pay was a strategic (not merely symbolic) challenge to capitalism.

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