Wages for Housework [Durham, NC]
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $200 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.
Instructor: Lindsey Andrews | 3 Meetings | Sundays July 14 - 28 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM ET | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
Why are certain types of work unwaged or underpaid? And why is so much of that labor historically women’s work? “Wages for Housework” was the demand and rallying cry of a world-wide coalition of Marxist feminists in the 1970s. They pointed out that a large portion of unpaid (or underpaid) labor was done by women in the home, and even worse, that it wasn’t recognized as labor at all. A classical understanding of capitalism divided labor into “productive”–which included factory and work-place labor–and “unproductive”–e.g. household chores, care, education. Unsurprisingly, work that was called “unproductive” aligned with the gendered division of labor. Wages for Housework was intended to both call attention to the invisibility of feminized labor, and also to imagine a solution. The movement has been called to account for a number of assumptions embedded in it; for example, critics have noted that the idea of the unpaid “housewife” is a raced category, or pointed to the lack of focus on domestic labor already performed for wages. However, it has also served as the basis for one of the most important theoretical interventions in capitalist critique in the last century: Social Reproduction Theory. Over the course of three sessions, we’ll examine some of the original texts produced by the movement as well as early critiques, and look at its ongoing legacy into our current moment.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 50% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month.Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $200 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.
Instructor: Lindsey Andrews | 3 Meetings | Sundays July 14 - 28 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM ET | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
Why are certain types of work unwaged or underpaid? And why is so much of that labor historically women’s work? “Wages for Housework” was the demand and rallying cry of a world-wide coalition of Marxist feminists in the 1970s. They pointed out that a large portion of unpaid (or underpaid) labor was done by women in the home, and even worse, that it wasn’t recognized as labor at all. A classical understanding of capitalism divided labor into “productive”–which included factory and work-place labor–and “unproductive”–e.g. household chores, care, education. Unsurprisingly, work that was called “unproductive” aligned with the gendered division of labor. Wages for Housework was intended to both call attention to the invisibility of feminized labor, and also to imagine a solution. The movement has been called to account for a number of assumptions embedded in it; for example, critics have noted that the idea of the unpaid “housewife” is a raced category, or pointed to the lack of focus on domestic labor already performed for wages. However, it has also served as the basis for one of the most important theoretical interventions in capitalist critique in the last century: Social Reproduction Theory. Over the course of three sessions, we’ll examine some of the original texts produced by the movement as well as early critiques, and look at its ongoing legacy into our current moment.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 50% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month.Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $200 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.
Instructor: Lindsey Andrews | 3 Meetings | Sundays July 14 - 28 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM ET | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
Why are certain types of work unwaged or underpaid? And why is so much of that labor historically women’s work? “Wages for Housework” was the demand and rallying cry of a world-wide coalition of Marxist feminists in the 1970s. They pointed out that a large portion of unpaid (or underpaid) labor was done by women in the home, and even worse, that it wasn’t recognized as labor at all. A classical understanding of capitalism divided labor into “productive”–which included factory and work-place labor–and “unproductive”–e.g. household chores, care, education. Unsurprisingly, work that was called “unproductive” aligned with the gendered division of labor. Wages for Housework was intended to both call attention to the invisibility of feminized labor, and also to imagine a solution. The movement has been called to account for a number of assumptions embedded in it; for example, critics have noted that the idea of the unpaid “housewife” is a raced category, or pointed to the lack of focus on domestic labor already performed for wages. However, it has also served as the basis for one of the most important theoretical interventions in capitalist critique in the last century: Social Reproduction Theory. Over the course of three sessions, we’ll examine some of the original texts produced by the movement as well as early critiques, and look at its ongoing legacy into our current moment.
—
This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing 50% or higher tuition tiers in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month.Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.