Lies, Truth and Unwaged Housework
Taylor, Peter http://www.nathanielturner.com/liestruthandunwagedhousework.htm
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Even as capital was moving to consolidate its rule in its interest-bearing form, women in the International Wages for Housework Campaign were already "making visible the stratum at the bottom of the hierarchy of labour-powers - the housewife - to which there corresponds no wage at all". This unwaged labour of housewives is the fundamental source of the surplus-value accumulated by interest-bearing capital. Of course, patriarchy predates capitalism. And from its beginning, capital has exploited this power of men over women.
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