The Toronto Wages for Housework Committee: a contribution to the critique of society and space
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Renewed attention to social reproduction theory has generated fresh scholarly interest in socialist-feminist movements from the 1970s-80s such as Wages for Housework. While the critique of domestic labour mounted by the international Wages for Housework campaign is widely known, less attention has been paid to the spatial dimension of their politics. This paper therefore investigates the relations between social reproduction feminism and urban geography, with special reference to the Toronto Wages for Housework committee. On the basis of archival research, I examine how Wages for Housework Toronto collaborated with other urban social groups such as immigrant domestic workers, shelter operators, tenants, and welfare activists to challenge dominant views about property and work. This historical-geographical study shows that a key lesson from Wages for Housework in Canada consists in considering urbanization as an essential element in the relationship between production and reproduction. I argue in conclusion that this critical spatial perspective on social reproduction holds vital political implications for making sense of contemporary crises of care in cities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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