By imputing value to women’s work and thus to care, Wages for Housework sought a society in which care and collective liberation, not personal ambition and brutality, would be paramount—for everyone, and a benefit to all. In her discussion of the Wages for Housework movement, Kathi Weeks astutely emphasizes its use of the demand: not so much a plea for money as an unapologetic statement of power and an expression of desire. The demand is a total rejection of a situation that divides, per Braverman, “those whose time is infinitely valuable” from “those whose time is worth almost nothing,” a
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