Our time is now : sex, race, class, and caring for people and planet / Selma James ; edited by Nina Lopez ; foreword by Margaret Prescod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, Selma, author.

Contributor:

Lopez, Nina, editor.

Prescod, Margaret, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Economic aspects.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : PM Press, [2021]

Summary:

For over sixty years, Selma James has been organizing from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and caring work, reproduce the whole human race--along with whatever other labor they are performing. This work goes on almost unnoticed everywhere on the planet and in every culture. When this work is not economically prioritized, politically protected, or socially supported there are dire consequences for the whole of humanity, beginning with women and children. This collection compiles several decades of James's work with a focus on her more recent writings, including an analysis of C.L.R. James's two masterpieces, The Black Jacobins and Beyond a Boundary, and an account of her formative partnership with him over three decades. Her experience with the Caribbean movement for independence and federation is reflected in her introduction to Ujamaa, the work of Tanzanians to bypass capitalism, and much more. Steeped in the tradition of Marx urging the need for a "practical movement," James recounts the unusual history of how autonomous organizations formed within the International Wages for Housework Campaign and reshaped it. Women of color, queer women, sex workers, women with disabilitie... each independent but mutually accountable (including to the men's network with whom they work) as they confront sexism, racism, deportation, rape, and other violence. James makes the argument that the climate justice movement can draw on all the movements' people have formed to refuse their particular exploitation, to end the capitalist hierarchy that is destroying the world. ---From publisher description.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

From Wages for Housework to a Care Income (1977-2020)

Houston: Equality Begins with Money

Time Off for Women

Articles in the Media

How Women's Work Has Been Pushed Up the US Political Agenda

What if Women Want to Look After Their Children Themselves, Liz Truss?

From Welfare to Wages, Women Fight Back against the Uncaring Market

When Women Disappoint

Child Benefit Has Been Changing Lives for 70 Years. Let's Not Forget the Woman Behind It

What Women Want 2.0: Equal Pay

Decades After Iceland's "Day Off," Our Women's Strike Is Stronger Than Ever

The Crucial Work That Women Do Is Often Overlooked

Norway: Equal-At What Price? Working Life and Family Life from an Ethnic Minority Perspective

France: Housework Must Be Waged-excerpts

What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in aJ ob Like This? A Comparison between Sex Work and Other Jobs Commonly Done by Women

An Income to Care for People and Planet

How Some of Our Network See the Care Income We Are All Campaigning For

A Care Income Now!

Chávez, Nyerere, Aristide versus Thatcher (2013-2018)

Hugo Chávez Knew That His Revolution Depended on Women

Thatcherism Hasn't Failed: It Has Infected All Our Politics

Haiti: NGO Crimes Go Far beyond Oxfam

Ujamaa: The Hidden Story of Tanzania's Socialist Villages (2014)

The Struggle of Prisoners (2014-2020)

Prisoners Celebrate the Power of Their United Struggle

Women Prisoners: Housework Inside

Revisiting the Work of CLR James (2017-2019)

The Black Jacobins, Past and Present

Confronting Imperial Boundaries

Beyond Boundaries-A Talk with Selma James on Her Political Activities and Years with CLR James

The Grassroots Labour Movement That Shook Britain (2015-2020)

Introduction.

Yvette Cooper Supported Sexist Austerity

Jeremy Corbyn Has Always Opposed It

On Winning with Corbyn

Standing with Palestinians

We Are in the Midst of an Anti-Left Witch-Hunt

Why the Movement Lost the Election and What Followed

Sex, Race, Class . . . and Autonomy (2020)

The Organizational Strategy of Autonomy

Andaiye: The Uses of Autonomy

Unlocking the Power of the Movement

Index

About the Authors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781629638546

1629638544

OCLC:

1245419101