The anonymous authors of Women and the New World suggest that wages for housework is “a proposal that takes us even further down the road of capitalism since it brings us into the marketplace and puts a price on activities which should fulfill human needs and not just economic independence for women.” (bell hooks, Feminist Theory)

… how do we value work?… by the good it does and the bad it doesn’t do… how much of the work done under capitalism would be highly valued by this standard?…