Conversations@NPL: Wages for Housework

Wages for Housework is the fascinating international story of Selma James, Silvia Federici, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Wilmette Brown, and Margaret Prescod, whose movement demanded wages as a starting point for remaking the world as we know it.

Drawing on their campaign’s roots in 1970s America, Italy, and the UK, with original archival research and interviews, historian Emily Callaci explores the revolutionary potential of paying women for their work in the home, and how Wages for Housework reimagined potential futures under capitalism—and beyond—in ways that continue to be relevant today.

Moderated by Tasneem Grace, humanities scholar and vice-president of Mosaic Changemakers.

• 6:00pm - Doors Open + Lightly Catered Reception
• 7:00pm - PROGRAM BEGINS
• 8:00pm - Program ends

“Callaci’s Wages for Housework offers the most comprehensive history to date of the slogan that became a movement, chronicling these feminist utopias, the thinkers that dreamed them, and the obstacles to their achievement.” ―The Boston Review
“[Callaci’s] vivid portraits revive a feminism both more radical and more mischievous than some contemporary forms.” ―The Guardian
"Callaci’s timing is impeccable… She has rendered these paradoxical and polarizing views in all their daring originality and prescience."―The New York Review of Books
“Callaci’s deeply researched book is a compelling guide to the world the movement wanted.”―The Atlantic

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