Ferguson, S. (2020): Women and Work. Feminism, Labour and Social Reproduction, Colección Intersecciones, Barcelona, Ed. Sylone-Viento Sur. 174 pp.

Abstract

The renewed strength of the feminist movement has put labor issues at the center of the political and social agenda in recent years. The wage gap, the care agenda, conciliation and co-responsibility policies, the feminization of precariousness, to name a few aspects, reflect a new theoretical elaboration and political proposals, which draw from the purple thread of history, updating certain concepts and opening new debates.

And it is that the relationship between work and women, the forms of exploitation and how to achieve emancipation and equality, are not new issues, they have occupied feminist reflections and demands for more than two centuries.

In this book, Women and Work: Feminism, Work and Social Reproduction, its author, Susan Ferguson, explores the ideas that have inspired women to protest, exploring the debates and political strategies around work - paid work, unpaid work. , productive, reproductive—, their social reorganization and the struggle for emancipation. To do this, she establishes the distinction between two approaches: equality feminism - where both liberal equality feminism and critical equality feminism are found - and social reproduction feminism.