Audio Interference: Silvia Federici & Wages For Housework

On February 9, 2018, Interference Archive presented a talk by Silvia Federici, co-founder of the Wages for Housework movement, on the publication of her new book, The New York Wages for Housework Committee, 1972-1977. Throughout the 1970s, the Wages for Housework movement developed an analysis of women’s reproductive labor— “housework” broadly conceived— as a primary site for mobilization. The movement, publication, and Federici's talk ask us: How do we understand and value our own reproductive labor? How can we organize around this work in a way that is transformative both of our own lives and builds a collective opposition to a global capitalist system? For more information about Silvia's new book: https://www.akpress.org/wages-for-housework.html For more information about Silvia Federici, check out Audio Interference Episode 22 (http://interferencearchive.org/audio-interference-22-silvia-federici/), in which Silvia talks not only about Wages for Housework, but also about her collection of anarchist and communist 45s from the 1960s. You might also be interested in a few more events coming up at Interference Archive: Chicago-based feminist art collective Sister Serpents: http://interferencearchive.org/sister-serpents/ Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: http://interferencearchive.org/2018-artfeminism-wikipedia-edit-a-thon/ The song you hear at the end of this episode is “Avete mai guardato” by Amalia Goffredo. Produced by Interference Archive.