Unpaid Domestic Labour

Wages For Housework button

This subsection contains material on unpaid work in the home. Key themes include defining unpaid domestic labour, identifying its costs, implementing legal strategies for support and remuneration, and making the links between unpaid labour and capitalism, as well as other systems of oppression.

Archival Materials

Buttons

The slogan highlights the false distinction between a woman employed in the paid workforce and the unpaid labour of women in the family
Every mother is a working mother

  • Year created:

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  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This Wages for Housework button supports the campaign to stop cutbacks to the SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) programme at the City of New York University. SEEK provided financial support to Third-World students, and especially women. The campaign also targeted efforts by social services to cut women off welfare supports.
No Cuts, Just Bucks – Black Women for Wages for Housework

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Wages For Housework button
Wages for Housework

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  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Documents
Brief on the Minimum Wage and a “Tip Differential”

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  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Hands Off the Family Allowance

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  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Hands Off the Family Allowance – May 1st

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  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    Other
Lesbian Women Have Rights and So Do Our Children!

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  • Language:

    English
Lesbians Join the Family Allowance Protest (1976)

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Letter – Family Allowance Protest (April 1976)

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Author(s):

    Francie Wyland

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Mayday in Toronto

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Money for Waitresses is Money for All Women!

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
More Money for Women!

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Motherhood, Lesbianism and Child Custody (1977)

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Author(s):

    Francie Wyland

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Motherhood, Lesbianism, and Child Custody: The Case for Wages for Housework

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Author(s):

    Francie Wyland

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Notes on the Women’s Movement

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  • Language:

    English
Petition for Wages for Housework

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  • Language:

    English
Tentative Outline for the Statement

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  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Wages Due Collective – Position Statement

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  • Author(s):

    Ellen Agger, Lorna Boschman, Lorna Boschman, Judith Quinlan, Boo Watson, Ellen Woodsworth

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wages Due Lesbians – Dorothy Kidd Speech (1976)

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Author(s):

    Dorothy Kidd

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wages Due Lesbians – Lesbian Mothers’ Defense Fund Launch

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wages for Housework

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    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wages for Housework – All Women Are Houseworkers

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    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wages for Housework – Facts

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wages for Housework – International Women’s Day Celebration

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wages for Housework – Mother-Led Union

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  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wages for Housework March

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    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wages for Housework Press Release

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Who Holds the Baby? Women & Child Custody

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  • Language:

    English
Women Speak Out: May Day Rally Toronto

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Author(s):

    Judy Ramirez, Liz Jansen, Patrice Simister, Sallie Shun, Ellen Woodsworth, Ellen Agger, Babe Jackman, Frances Gregory

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Kit Booklet 1: Women’s Days

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Work

  • Year created:

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  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Work is Never Done

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    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Kit Booklet 4: Housework

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
You Begin To Wonder…

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  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Films

Still from the short animated film "The Housewife" featuring a dark blue background and a blue animated figure taking down laundry from a clothesline during a storm.
The Housewife

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Cathy Bennett

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Black and white still from the film "Who's Counting?" depicting Marilyn Waring, a middle aged white woman with short brown hair, looking off to the side of the frame.
Who’s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Terre Nash

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Periodicals

Wages for Housework Campaign Bulletin

Wages for Housework Campaign Bulletin – Vol. 1, No. 3 – Spring 1977

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Wages for Housework Committee

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Wages for Housework Campaign Bulletin – Vol. 2, No. 1 – Fall 1977

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Wages for Housework Committee

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Wages for Housework Campaign Bulletin – Vol. 4, No. 1 – Summer/Fall 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Author(s):

    Judith Ramirez, Dorothy Kidd, Baba Yaga, Paula, Fainstat, Louise Brown, Frances Gregory, Kathleen Macleod Jamieson

  • Language:

    English
Wages for Housework Campaign Bulletin – Vol. 3 Issue 1 – Summer/Fall 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Wages for Housework Committee

  • Author(s):

    Judith Ramirez, Frances Gregory, Ellen Agger, Betty Burcher, Mary Deacon, Liz Janzen, Dorothy Kidd, Heather Sterling

  • Language:

    English

Posters
Every Miner Had a Mother

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Visual Artist:

    Furhman

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
International Panel of Speakers on Wages for Housework Campaign

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Selma James: “Wages for Housework and the abortion movement”

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    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wages for Housework – Suzie Fleming

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  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English