Premilla Nadasen

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.

America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?

Fears about “undeserving” people receiving public assistance have deep ties to racism and the policing of black women’s bodies.

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.