Emily Callaci

In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.

The 1970s campaign fought to get women paid for their work in the home—and envisioned a society built to better support motherhood.

A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.

In the Seventies, one feminist movement campaigned to make domestic labour both visible and recompensed.