Au Éditions Tiempo Robado editoras parait 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗷𝗼 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗲́𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗼. 𝗖𝗿𝗼́𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗮 𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 (𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟮-𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟳) la traduction espagnole de 𝗟𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘂 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗺𝗲́𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 : 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗱’𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗹𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗲́𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗲 (𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟮-𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟳) de Louise Toupin. La fiche du livre. Lancement à venir à Santiago, Chili!Our series on new books in labor and working-class history continues. An English translation of Louise Toupin’s Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77, was co-published this fall by UBC Press and Pluto Press. Toupin, a retired lecturer in political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal, answered questions from Jacob Remes. Her answers were translated from the French by Xandi McMahon.
[Jacob Remes] What can labor historians learn from the history of the movement for Wages for Housework?
[Louise Toupin] Through the Wages for Housework movement, labor historians have learned that the “classic” job market–the factory and the office–is only one face of human work. Hidden behind the work of producing goods, there was another face: all the invisible, free work of reproduction and the renewal of labor power, work generally assigned to women and subordinate to the production of goods. This invisible work hides the exploitation of women’s reproductive labor in the home, which in turn becomes much greater exploitation outside the home. This work constitutes part of the reproductive cycle of capitalism and contributes to the accumulation of capital in a crucial way. This work of social reproduction effectively allowed the capitalist economy to rely on an enormous amount of unpaid work, carried out by unwaged, or poorly waged, women. Capitalism benefits from this free labor–it is used to supply a “ready-to-work” labor force–but it doesn’t have to pay for it. This was one of the important contributions of the Wages for Housework perspective on the concept of work, formulated in 1972 by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James in their book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community. […]
Plus…In the first chapter of her ambitious book Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972–77, feminist writer and retired university professor Louise Toupin provides a glimpse into daily life for women in the early 1970s — a time in which housework (also called domestic work or care work) was not considered to be real work, rather it was a « labour of love, » or a biological duty imposed almost always upon women. […]
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En septembre 2018, la formidable maison d’édition Pluto Press (Londres, Angleterre) fera paraître Wages for Housework: The History of a International feminist Movement (1972-1977).
Revolutionary feminism is resurging across the world. But what were its origin? In the early 1970s, the International Feminist Collective began to organise around the call for recognition of the different forms of labour performed by women. […]
Plus…Les Éditions du remue-ménage cultivent depuis longtemps un équilibre entre recherche et militantisme qui a su défier les conventions du livre savant. Le salaire au travail ménager: Chronique d’une lutte féministe internationale (1972-1977) de Louise Toupin, cofondatrice de la maison et militante féministe de longue date, est un savoureux fruit de ces travaux. […]
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Plus…J’ai donc entrepris cette recherche pour faire connaître la pensée en question, et aussi pour offrir un arrière-plan historique à plusieurs débats et enjeux actuels, dont l’irrésolue question du partage familial des tâches, la difficile «conciliation famille-emploi» et ses effets discriminants sur les mères salariées, de même que l’actuelle évolution de la division sexuée du travail de reproduction sociale à l’échelle mondiale. C’est donc pour moi un devoir de mémoire, jumelé à un souci d’offrir des outils critiques historiques à plusieurs enjeux actuels. […]
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