index of all posts

• Some books
• Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America [book]
• Daily Mail (UK): “Reclaiming the banks: Activists turn British banks into creches, classrooms and launderettes in protest over public service cuts”
• Taking a break
• Evelyn Nakano Glenn, “Racial Ethnic Women’s Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Class Oppression”
• The Fargate Speaker [UK], “Crisis in Care: Interview with an anarchist support worker”
• Marina Vishmidt, “Human Capital or Toxic Asset: After the Wage”
• María Ruido, “Just Do It! Bodies and Images of Women in the New Division of Labor”
• Madame Tlank, “The Battle of all* Mothers (or: No Unauthorised Reproduction)”
• Louie Traikovski, “The Housewives’ Wages Debate in the 1920s”
• Evelyn Nakano Glenn, “Creating a Caring Society”
• Sheila Fitzpatrick, “The Wives’ Movement”
• Factory of Found Clothes, Three Mothers and a Chorus // Три матери и хор
• Joanne Richardson, Vieti Precare // Precarious Lives
• Tracey Moffatt, Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
• Ousmane Sembene, La Noire de… [Black Girl]
• Lara Vapnek, “Desires for Distance: White Working-Class Women’s Rejection of Domestic Service in the late 19th-century United States”
• Harry Cleaver, “On Self-valorization in Mariarosa Dalla Costa’s “‘Women and the Subversion of the Community’”
• Harry Cleaver, “On Domestic Labor and Value in Mariarosa Dalla Costa’s ‘Women and the Subversion of the Community’ (1971)”
• David Roediger, “‘Slaving like a Nigger’: Irish Jobs and Irish Whiteness”
• Maria Mies, “Colonization and Housewifization”
• Paula Giddings, “Resistance”
• CLR James, “On the Woman Question: An Orientation”
• Precarias a la Deriva, “Close encounters in the second phase: The communication continuum: care-sex-attention”
• Precarias a la Deriva, “Bodies, Lies and Videotape: Between the Logic of Security and the Logic of Care”
• Precarias a la Deriva, “Precarious Lexicon”
• Precarias a la Deriva, “Preguntas para Precarias”
• Precarias a la Deriva, “First Stutterings of ‘Precarias a la Deriva’”
• Jill Quadagno, “The Politics of Motherhood”
• Christine Delphy, “Patriarchy, Domestic Mode of Production, Gender, and Class”
• Laura Fantone, “Precarious Changes: Gender and Generational Politics in Contemporary Italy”
• Maya Gonzalez and Caitlin Manning, “Political Work with Women and as Women in the Present Conditions: Interview with Silvia Federici”
• Frances Rooney, “SORWUC” [the Service, Office and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada]
• Genora Johnson Dollinger, “‘This Is the Pressure That They Used’: Genora Dollinger Recalls the Flint Sit-Down Strike”
• The Young Lords: A Reader, “Health and Hospitals”
• Dorothy Sue Cobble, “‘A Spontaneous Loss of Enthusiasm’: Workplace Feminism and the Transformation of Women’s Service Jobs in the 1970s”
• Eileen Boris and S. J. Kleinberg, “Mothers and Other Workers: (Re)Conceiving Labor, Maternalism, and the State”
• Picket against racist budget cuts at University of Texas-Austin
• Marvel Cooke, “The Bronx Slave Market”
• Harry Braverman, “Service occupations and retail trade”
• Lynn Prince Cook, “The Politics of Housework”
• Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, “The ‘Hidden Side’ of the New Economy: On Transnational Migration, Domestic Work, and Unprecedented Intimacy”
• Erik S. McDuffie, “Esther V. Cooper’s ”The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism”: Black Left Feminism and the Popular Front”
• Eileen Boris and Premilla Nadasen, ”Domestic Workers Organize!”
• Ella Baker and Marvel Cooke, “The Slave Market”
• bell hooks, “Feminist Parenting”
• María Isabel Casas-Cortés, “Towards a Theory of Care / Hacia una Teoria del Cuidado: Ethnographic Accounts of Changing Political Subjects and Strategies”
• Kevin Van Meter, “The Moment I Cannot Escape: Care, Death, Mourning, and the Struggle Against It All”
• Stevphen Shukaitis, “Questions for Aeffective Resistance”
• Li-Fang Liang, “The Construction of Global City: Invisible Work and Disposable Labor”
• Amaia Pérez Orozco, “Spain: 2002 General Strike – Feminist Perspectives”
• María Puig de la Bellacasa, “Flexible girls. A position paper on academic genderational politics”
• Arlie Hochschild, “Feeling Management: From Private to Commercial Uses”
• Mariarosa Dalla Costa, “Rustic and Ethical”
• Nancy Fraser, “Women, Welfare and the Politics of Need Interpretation”
• Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
• Lisa Dodson and Rebekah M. Zincavage, “‘It’s like a family’: Caring labor, exploitation, and race in nursing homes”
• Michel Foucault, “Friendship as a Way of Life”
• Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, “Organizing Home Care: Low-Waged Workers in the Welfare State”
• Luce Irigaray, “Women on the Market”
• Theda Skocpol, “A Society without a ‘State’? Political Organization, Social Conflict, and Welfare Provision in the United States”
• Domestic Workers United, “Domestic Workers and Collective Bargaining: A Proposal for Immediate Inclusion of Domestic Workers in the New York State Labor Relations Act”
• Mariarosa Dalla Costa, “Women’s Autonomy and Remuneration for Care Work in the New Emergencies”
• Gwendolyn Mink, “The Lady and the Tramp (II): Feminist Welfare Politics, Poor Single Mothers and the Challenge of Welfare Justice”
• bell hooks, “Women at Work”
• Alisa Del Re, “Women and Welfare: Where Is Jocasta?”
• Carlo Vercellone, “The Anomaly and Exemplariness of the Italian Welfare State”
• Precarias a la Deriva, “Four Hypotheses on the sex-attention-care continuum”
• Tiqqun #2, “Sonogram of a Potential”
• Francis Wheen, “The Megalosaurus” (excerpt)
• Silvia Federici, “The reproduction of labour-power in the global economy, Marxist theory and the unfinished feminist revolution”
• Ruth Milkman, “Women’s Work and Economic Crisis: Some Lessons of the Great Depression”
• Contra Costa Times, “Parents anguish over child care cuts” [10/19/2010]
• Mariarosa Dalla Costa, “Capitalism and Reproduction”
• Mariarosa Dalla Costa, “A General Strike”
• Nicole Cox and Silvia Federici, “Capital and the Left”
• Nicole Cox and Silvia Federici, “Counter-Planning from the Kitchen”
• Judith Ramirez, “The Global Kitchen: A Speech on the Value of Housework Debate”
• Layla AbdelRahim, “On Objects, Love, and Objectifications: Children in a Material World”
• Cheshire Calhoun, “Constructing Lesbians and Gay Men as Family’s Outlaws”
• Oakland Tribune, “Protests draw attention to halt in Kidango funding” [9/29/2010]
• Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (1999), Article 88
• Claire Fontaine, “Human strike within the field of libidinal economy”
• Gladys Knight and the Pips, “Mr. Welfare Man”
• Kathleen Lynch, John Baker, Sara Cantillon and Judy Walsh: “Which Equalities Matter? The Place of Affective Equality in Egalitarian Thinking”
• Solidarity with the Whittier Parents’ Sit-in
• Ellen K. Feder, “The Dangerous Individual(’s) Mother: Biopower, Family, and the Production of Race”
• “Towards an Insurrectionary Transfeminism”
• Silvia Federici, “Wages Against Housework”
• Mary M., “So who needs daycare?”
• Women’s Struggle Notes, “A Smile for £300”
• Betsy Warrior, “Females and Welfare”
• Pat Mainardi, “The Politics of Housework”
• Sanford F. Schram, “Where the Welfare Queen Resides: The Subtext of Personal Responsibility”
• Jamrat Mason, Hackney Pride speech
• Associated Press, “California students get tracking devices” (Aug. 18, 2010)
• Silvia Federici, “Putting feminism back on its feet”
• Silvia Federici, “The Restructuring of Social Reproduction in the United States in the 1970s”
• Selma James/Johnson-Forest Tendency, “On the Woman Question: An Orientation”
• Child Development Group of Mississippi, “A Letter to you from Tom Levin”
• Frances Fox Piven, “Welfare and Work”
• Frances Fox Piven, “The Link Between Welfare Reform and the Labor Market”
• Every Mother is a Working Mother Network, “Caring Work Counts! Mothers Challenge Advocates & the Poverty Lobby”
• BAMN Golden Gate Child Development Center (CDC) occupation
• Ellen Reese, “But Who Will Watch the Children? State and Local Campaigns to Improve Child Care Policies”
• SF Chronicle, “Oakland keeping 5 child care centers open”
• SF Chronicle, “7 Oakland day care centers may close” (Aug. 27, 2010)
• KCRA, “Budget Protesters Block Major Road Near Capitol” (Aug. 18, 2010)
• California Watch, “Child care providers struggle without a state budget” (Aug. 17, 2010)
• Martha A. Ackelsberg, “Organizing Women: First Steps”
• Precarias a la Deriva, “A Very Careful Strike – Four hypotheses.”
• Contra Costa Times, “Budget cuts threaten child care as parents battle costs” (Aug. 13, 2010)
• Selma James, “Women, the Unions and Work, Or…What Is Not To Be Done”
• Jacklyn Cock, “Trapped Workers: The Case of Domestic Workers in South Africa”
• Maxine Molyneux, “Beyond the Domestic Labour Debate”
• Women’s Work Study Group, “Loom, Broom and Womb: Producers, Maintainers and Reproducers”
• KTVU, “Students, Parents March Against Closure Of Oakland Childcare Centers” (Aug. 11, 2010)
• Patricia Hill Collins, “Work, Family and Black Women’s Oppression”
• Toronto Star, “Census change devalues women’s unpaid work” (Aug. 6, 2010)
• Combahee River Collective, “The Combahee River Collective Statement”
• Island of Alameda, “[Alameda Unified School] District set to slash child care programs” (Aug. 10, 2010)
• Daily Cal, “Community Members Gather to Protest Proposed Childcare Cuts” (Aug. 9, 2010)
• Michel Foucault, “Right of Death and Power over Life”
• Linda McDowell, “Life without father and Ford: the new gender order of post-Fordism”
• Susan Thistle, “Support for Women’s Domestic Economy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”
• John Taylor Gatto, “Against school”
• Bay Citizen, “Child Care Centers Remain Open, for Now” (July 30, 2010)
• SF Bay View, “‘People’s Takeover’ of child care centers planned by Oakland Parents Together” (July 26, 2010)
• Judith Halberstam, “Queer Temporality and Postmodern Geographies”
• Alexandra Kollontai, “Communism and the family”
• Nora Connor, “Welfare, Workfare, Alienation: Early Marx and Late Capitalism”
• Donna Haraway: “The ‘homework economy’ outside ‘the home’”
• Angela Davis, “The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective”
• David Hilliard, “Child Development Center”
• Ericka Huggins, “The Liberation Schools, the Children’s House, the Intercommunal Youth Institute and the Oakland Community School”
• Karl Marx, “Production, Consumption, Distribution, Exchange (Circulation)”
• Silvia Federici, “Precarious Labor and Reproductive Work”
• Kathi Weeks, “Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics”
• Precarias a la deriva, “Adrift through the circuits of feminized precarious work”
• Sandro Mezzadra, “Taking Care: Migration and the Political Economy of Affective Labor”
• Juan Martín Prada, “Economies of affectivity”
• Jane Alpert, “Birth of Mother Right”
• First National Chicana Conference, “Workshop resolutions”
• Mary Ann Weathers, “An Argument For Black Women’s Liberation As a Revolutionary Force”
• Roberta, “The hand that rocks the cradle should be paid”
• Jason Read, “What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Philosophy of Karl Marx: The Politics and Ontology of Living Labor”
• Housewives’ trade union Santa Fe, Argentina, “Women’s manifesto”
• Cindy L’Hirondelle, “Housework Under Capitalism: The Unpaid Labor of Mothers”
• Stijn Vanheule, “Caring and its Impossibilities: A Lacanian Perspective” [excerpt]
• Valerie Bryson, “Production and reproduction”
• Harriet Fraad, “Children as an exploited class”
• George Caffentzis / Silvia Federici, “Notes on the edu–factory and Cognitive Capitalism”
• George Caffentzis, “Throwing away the ladder: The universities in the crisis”
• Selma James, “Sex, Race and Class”
• Center for the Study of Childcare Employment, “Working for worthy wages: The child care compensation movement, 1970-2001″
• Mariarosa Dalla Costa, “Women and the Subversion of the Community”
• Philip J. Kain, “Marx, Housework and Alienation”
• bell hooks, “Revolutionary parenting”
• Michael Hardt, “Affective Labor”