Keywords
domestic labour
Wages for Housework
Marxist feminism
antiwork
postwork
antiproductivism
antifamilialism
autonomy
How to Cite
Abstract
This article presents a defence of the demand for a guaranteed basic income against recent Left critiques. Drawing on a series of lessons from the 1970s-era demand for Wages for Housework, I argue in favour of a demand for a liveable and universal basic income as a coalitional, antiproductivist, antifamilial reform that can help to alleviate some of the ways that the current wage-and-family system miscounts our economic contributions and fails as a sys-tem of income distribution.
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