2025-03-31
42 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
Unpaid domestic labour has long been the invisible backbone of economies worldwide.
But what if it were compensated?
In this episode, historian Emily Calacci takes us inside the Wages for Housework movement.
In this episode, historian Emily Calacci takes us inside the Wages for Housework movement,
a bold and controversial campaign that emerged in the 1970s.
Drawing on her new book, Wages for the Story of a Movement, An Idea, a Promise,
Kolachi tells the story of this campaign by exploring the lives and ideas of its key creators,
tracing their wildly creative political vision over the past five decades.
Joining Kolachi to discuss the history,
impact and lasting relevance of this revolutionary idea is Hannah Dawson,
the historian of ideas at King's College London and editor of the Penguin Book of Feminist Writing.
Let's join Hannah now with more.
Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared.
I'm Hannah Dawson.
Our guest today is Emily Kalachi.
Emily is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison in the us she is a historian of modern Africa, global feminism and decolonization.
Her first book, Street Archives and City Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania,