Women and Work
• Domestic Labour

References for Theme: Domestic Labour

• Aassve, Arnstein; Fuochi, Giulia; Mencarini, Letizia
• "Desperate Housework: Relative Resources, Time Availability, Economic Dependency, and Gender Ideology Across Europe" (2014)

• Allen, Davina
• The invisible work of nurses: hospitals, organisation and healthcare (2014)

• Ameeriar, Lalaie
• "Pedagogies of Affect: Docility and Deference in the Making of Immigrant Women Subjects" (2015)

• "Preferences and Prejudices: Employers’ Views on Domestic Workers in the Republic of Yemen" (2015)

• Amodio, Suzanne M
• Imagining the New Filipino Heroes: Motivation and Identity of Contemporary Female Migrants (1997)

• Anteby, Michel; Chan, Curtis
• "Invisible Work" (2013)

• Bakan, Abigail B; Stasiulis, Daiva K
• "Making the Match: Domestic Placement Agencies and the Racialization of Women's Household Work" (1995)

• Bear, Julia B; Pittinsky, Todd L
• The Caregiving Ambition: What It Is and Why It Matters at Home and Work (2022)

• Best, Beverley
• "Wages for Housework Redux: Social Reproduction and the Utopian Dialectic of the Value-form" (2021)

• Boris, Eileen
• "Wages for Housework: The New York Committee 1972–1977: History, Theory, Documents ed. by Silvia Federici and Arlen Austin" (2019)

• Boydston, Jeanne
• Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic (2009)

• Brewis, Joanna
• "Who do you think you are? Feminism, work, ethics and Foucault" (1998)

• Costa, Mariarosa Dalla
• "Domestic Labour and the Feminist Movement in Italy since the 1970s" (1988)

• Daniels, Arlene Kaplan
• "Invisible work" (1987)

• Davis, Angela
• "Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves" (1981)

• "The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-class Perspective" (1981)

• De Regt, Marina
• "Preferences and Prejudices: Employers’ Views on Domestic Workers in the Republic of Yemen" (2009)

• Delphy, Christine
• Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression (1984)

• Delphy, Christine; Leonard, D
• A Materialist Feminism is possible (1980)

  (p.95) do not say that women who have children are 'mothers' and therefore liable to be exploited. I say rather that because their work is appropriated women must raise children for nothing. I do not say that 'motherhood explains the appropriation of women's labour} but on the contrary that the appropriation of their labour, affected among other things through unpaid childcare, constitutes women as mothers. Thus motherhood, far from being a natural fact giving birth to exploitation, is a social construct created by exploitation

• Edmond, Wendy; Fleming, Suzie
• All work and no pay: women, housework, and the wages due (1975)

• Fagan, Colette; Grimshaw, Damian; Rubery, Jill; Smith, Mark
• Women and European Employment (2015)

• Federici, Silvia
• Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (2012)

• Fortunati, Polda
• "The Housewife" (1975)

• Fox, Bonnie
• Hidden in the Household: Women's Domestic Labour Under Capitalism (1980)

• Himmelweit, Susan
• "Domestic Labour" (1989)

• Hochschild, Arlie Russell
• The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home (1989)

• The Time Bind (1997)

• Huws, Ursula
• "Commodification of Housework" (2019)

• "The Hassle of Housework: Digitalisation and the Commodification of Domestic Labour" (2019)

• Huws, Ursula; Frapporti, Mattia
• "Digitalisation, labour and the pandemic: Working life in the post-COVID-19 city" (2021)

• Ida, Kumiko
• "Impact of Marxist feminism on Japanese women’s movement: Focusing on the domestic labor debates" (2021)

• Jacobs, Jerry A; Gerson, Kathleen
• The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality (2004)

• Jaggar, Alison M
• Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1983)

  (p.155) The sexual division of labor in different societies has varied so widely that it is notoriously difficult to construct general economic categories for understanding women's work cross-culturally, but one might suppose that it would be easier to develop categories explaining the sexual division of labor within a given society. Even in the case of contemporary industrial society, however, it is far from obvious how to provide a general and illuminating characterization of women's work that goes beyond the tautology that it is done by women.

• Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1983)

  (p.74) The traditional Marxist categories were not designed to capture the essential features of the sexual division of labor, and it is doubtful whether they are capable of doing the job. Within the public economy, for instance, there is in fact a sharp separation between jobs that are considered appropriate for men and those that are considered suitable for women; men and women rarely work side by side at the same job. The gender-blind categories of Marxist theory, however, obscure rather than reveal this fact. Even more seriously, the central Marxist categories hardly apply at all to the household, which is...

• Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1983)

  (p.78) By obscuring women's oppression, Marxist theory provides a rationale for its perpetuation. The biologistic conception of procreation legitimates women's continuing responsibility for procreative labor. This responsibility, in turn, hinders women's full participation in nonprocreative labor and legitimates sexsegregation in that sphere. At the same time, the biologistic conception of procreation leads to the devaluation of procreative labor: women's work may be socially necessary, but it is not fully historical and hence not fully human work.

• Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1983)

• Kaplan Daniels, Arlene
• "Invisible Work" (1987)

• Kittay, Eva
• "Loves Labor revisited" (2002)

• Liu, Xuanqi; Dyer, Suzette
• "Revisiting radical feminism: Partnered dual-earner mothers' place still in the home?" (2014)

• Lutz, Helma
• "Domestic Work" (2007)

• Macdonald, Lindsey
• "We are All Housewives" (2018)

• Malos, Ellen
• The Politics of Housework (1980)

• "The Politics of Household Labour in the 1990s: Old Debates, New Contexts" (1982)

• Markusen, Ann R
• "City Spatial Structure, Women's Household Work, and National Urban Policy" (1980)

• Meagher, Gabrielle
• "Is It Wrong to Pay for Housework?" (2002)

• Mies, Maria
• Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (1986)

• Molyneux, Maxine
• "Beyond the Domestic Labour Debate" (1979)

• "Beyond the Domestic Labour Debate" (1979)

• Nakai, Asako
• "Materialism, autonomy, intersectionality: revisiting Virginia Woolf through the Wages for Housework perspective" (2022)

  Woolf’s materialist feminism, envisioned in Three Guineas, can be summed up as follows: the material basis is indispensable for women not only to survive but also to voice their independent political opinions. She proposes three strategies for women to take. First, women should assert their right to have access to independent income, and for this purpose should demand that the state pay for their reproductive work that often limits their opportunity to do waged work. Second, they must object to the very wage system – the system of ‘profession’ in Woolf’s terms – which is indeed in complicity with patriarchy,...

• Parrott, Heather Macpherson
• "Housework, children, and women’s wages across racial–ethnic groups" (2014)

• Picchio, Antonella
• Unpaid Work and the Economy: A Gender Analysis of the Standards of Living (2005)

• Singha, Lotika
• "Conceptualising Paid Domestic Work" (2019)

• "Domestic Cleaning: Work or Labour" (2019)

• "Meanings of Domestic Cleaning as Work and Labour" (2019)

• "The Occupational Relations of Domestic Cleaning as Work and Labour" (2019)

• Smith, Paul
• "Domestic Labour and Marx's Theory of Value" (1978)

• Swinth, Kirsten
• Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family (2018)

• Williams, Joan
• Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It (2001)

• Zaretsky, Eli
• Capitalism, the Family and Personal Life (1976)

• Zelleke, Almaz
• "Wages for Housework: The Marxist-Feminist Case for Basic Income" (2022)

• Ćosić, Mate
• "Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle" (2014)