Sublime

Men are able to accept our services and take pleasure in them because they presume that housework is easy for us and that we enjoy it because we do it for their love.

How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labor when one secretly feels one’s job should not exist?

there turns out to be a profound formal similarity between

proletariat

Through my involvement in the women’s movement I realized that the reproduction of human beings is the foundation of every economic and political system, and that the immense amount of paid and unpaid domestic work done by women in the home is what keeps the world moving.

By confronting the destruction of the commons and the creation of a fake democracy in its stead, La Via Campesina has faced the challenge of modern market society.

Polanyi’s double movement—responding to the transformation of the world into property and the destruction of ways of managing shared resources.

The wage and the lack of it have allowed capital to obscure the real length of our working day.