Housewives, Prostitutes, and Workers

Leopoldina Fortunati

A Wages for Housework march, 1977. Source: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute / Bettye Lane.

Issue #151

February 2025

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Notes

Karl Marx, Grundrisse (1857) →.

Marx, Grundrisse →.

These phenomena are especially observable in some countries, including the United States.

Marx, Capital, vol. 1 →.

This is in English in the original.

Excerpted from Leopoldina Fortunati, The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital, trans. Arlen Austin and Sara Colantuono (Verso, 2025). Originally published in Italian as L’arcano della riproduzione: Casalinghe, prostitute, operai e capitale (Marsilio Editori, 1981).

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