Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
City University of New York (CUNY)
Autonomia; Feminism; Italy; Marxism; Reproductive labor; Workerism
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
Revisting The Domestic Labor Debate: Toward A Critique Of Workerist Feminism, Alice Feng
Revisting The Domestic Labor Debate: Toward A Critique Of Workerist Feminism, Alice Feng
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The extremely high presence of housewives in Italy during the 'miracle years,' of 1950-1963, seemingly suggested that an unprecedented number of women were unemployed after their expulsion from large-scale industry. This phenomenon inspired debate among feminists on questions such as the contribution of housewives to the reproduction of labor-power, the character of reproductive labor and the relation between the participation of women in waged labor and unwaged domestic labor. In revisiting this phenomenon, this thesis argues that, contrary to the appearance of women being unemployed, a significant number of women, along with children, were irregularly engaged in undeclared forms of …