Name/TitleSex, Race and Class
MakerJames, Selma
Maker RoleAuthor and Editor
About this objectSlim Centrepieces pamphlet titled 'Sex, Race and Class' written and edited by Selma James. The main section headings are:
- A mass movement teaches by the power it exercises
- Within each movement there is a struggle about which class interest it will serve
- Race, sex, age, nation, each an indispensable element of the international division of labour
- When Black workers burn the centre of a city, white Left eyes see race, not class
- Opening the possibility of refusing forced labour with or without wages
Fully scanned (16 pages)
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 215 x W: 148 mm
Date Made1986
Period1980s
Place MadeEngland, London
PublisherHousewives in Dialogue
Publication Date1986
Publication PlaceEngland, London
Series TitleCentrepieces
Number in Series1
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages_for_housework:
The International Wages for Housework Campaign (IWFHC) is a grassroots women's network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside. It was started in 1972 by Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Silvia Federici, Brigitte Galtier, and Selma James who first put forward the demand for wages for housework. At the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester, England, the IWFHC states that they begin with those with least power internationally – unwaged workers in the home (mothers, housewives, domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged subsistence farmers and workers on the land and in the community. They consider the demand for wages for unwaged caring work to be also a perspective and a way of organizing from the bottom up, of autonomous sectors working together to end the power relations among them [continues].
Subject and Association KeywordsBlack women activists
Subject and Association Keywords(anti) racism
Subject and Association KeywordsBlack women writers
Subject and Association Keywordssocial class
Subject and Association KeywordsGender equality
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePamphlet
Object numberGWL-2015-47-4
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved