Wages for Housework Campaign
Unpaid Household Work
Seth Sandronsky Caring labor, or household work, creates our world. Whether we call it caring labor or household work, the activity is a subsidy to private industry. It gains from failing to compensate providers’ money and time spent. A key measurement of the economy, Gross Domestic Product, fails to include this unpaid activity. To be clear, GDP…
Read MoreNew book: Wages for Housework – experiment with unconditional cash transfers to women. Prabha Kotiswaran
An honour to share my book with Selma James, a living legend of the Wages for Housework Campaign. Tucked away in a mews in Kentish Town, the Women’s Crossroads Centre bustles with activity: campaigns, zoom calls and for researchers, the entire archives of the Campaign (also stored at the Bishopsgate Institute). Over an organic lunch…
Read MoreNew Book published on India’s Wages for Housework campaign
Please see new book by Prabha Kotiswaran – Wages for Housework: India’s Experiment with Unconditional Cash Transfers to Women. Available Open Access from Oxford University Press. The link for download is at https://academic.oup.com/book/62989 Part I sets out the normative case for unconditional cash transfers to women by engaging with debates in feminist economics, feminist theories of the welfare…
Read MoreAfter more than 50 years of campaigning,wages for housework is becoming a reality – in India and elsewhere.
After more than 50 years of campaigning,wages for housework is becoming a reality – in India and elsewhere. By the International Wages for Housework Campaign, 15 December 2025 For more information contact: gws@globalwomenstrike.net or 020 7482 2496 We women are owed a debt and the first payments have come – more is expected as the…
Read More50 years ago, 24 October 1975, women in Iceland went on strike from waged and unwaged work.
50 years ago, 24 October 1975, women in Iceland went on strike from waged and unwaged work. They called it a ‘Day Off’ and 90% of women took part. They said, “When women stop, everything stops” and everything stopped in Iceland! The media hardly mentioned it but the International #WagesforHousework Campaign heard of it –…
Read MoreWed 19 March: Stefania Barca, Book Club “Workers of the Earth” 6pm. Zoom Link
Stefania Barca’s talk with London Mining Network will be on-line via zoom (see link below). It will be a hybrid format so you can also take part in person, by joining on zoom at Crossroads Women’s Centre. All welcome. This exciting book includes a chapter on WFH’s organising against “nuclear housework” and the UK’s nuclear…
Read MoreVisit Wages For Housework & English Collective of Prostitutes in major exhibition ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’
Wages for Housework Campaign & English Collective of Prostitutes in major exhibition Dear Friends, As part of International Women’s Week celebrations, we’re planning a group visit to see ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ at the Wellcome Collection (183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE) on Sunday 9 March at 1pm. If you would like to join us,…
Read MoreBook Launch: Wages for Housework – The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise.
A fascinating new book by Emily Callaci about the history of the International Wages for Housework Campaign is being launched in the UK next week (US launch to follow). Wages for Housework The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise features WFH founder Selma James (who turns 95 this year), co-ordinates the Global Women’s…
Read MoreWages for Housework Campaign in major exhibition – Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights
‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ at the Wellcome Collection (London) explores “the profound impact of physical work on health and the body. It delves into the stories of underrepresented workers and their rights within precarious and unsafe labour environments. From protests to healing practices, the exhibition unveils hidden histories of resistance and collective action.…
Read MorePress release from Queer Strike: “When women are paid for all we do, there’ll be a lot of wages due . . .”
Singer-song writer Gemma Rogers has re-imagined the song, “Wages Due”, written and originally sung by Boo Watson in 1975. Released on Bandcamp, people are asked to pay what they can when they download the song. We’re delighted that all proceeds will go to Crossroads Women. Boo Watson was a founding member of Wages Due Lesbians in Toronto, Canada, and a talented musician. She composed and wrote the “Wages…
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