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The Politics of Caring: Wages for Housework Activism in Canada

In exploring Indigenous, racialized, immigrant/ethnic, and low-income women’s activism in Canada from the 1960s to the 1980s, we have learned a great deal more about the fascinating role that Wages for Housework (WFH) has played in this activism.

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Rise Up! is a digital archive of feminist activism in Canada from the 1970s to the 1990s. We were part of a worldwide wave of liberation and anti-oppression movements that won some victories, changed some attitudes, and radically altered the gendered and political landscape.

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