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unwaged

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adjective

  1. of, relating to, or denoting a person who is not receiving pay because of either being unemployed or working in the home
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Full membership of the Labour Party costs £52 a year, although there are discounted rates for retired people, union members and the unwaged.

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Federici is a longtime advocate of the idea that domestic work is unwaged labor and was a founder of the Wages for Housework movement in the early 1970s.

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Housework is also hard to organize around because it is unwaged and often self-managed, and therefore easy to see as less important than women’s waged work and the inequalities they face in the paid workforce, such as sexual harassment, pay inequity and pregnancy discrimination.

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Feminists critiqued capitalism’s dependence on women’s unwaged domestic labor, also called reproductive labor.

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From aprons to rubber gloves, domestic work uniforms are put on view from the 19th century to the 1990s in what is called “unwaged laborâ€.

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