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Helke Sander
Helke Sander
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Irene ist Viele! Or What We Call “Productive” Forces
Marion von Osten
Irene ist Viele! 1
An extensive 2004 study undertaken by the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics (BFS) found that, in one of the world’s wealthiest countries, of nearly fifteen billion annual work hours, eight billion went unpaid. Two-thirds of that free labor was performed by women, while women in the wage-labor sector were paid on average 18 percent less than men. 2 The study shows that the “invisible hand of the market,” with its celebrated promise of economic equality, fails…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2009
Category
Economy, Labor & Work, Film, Feminism
Subjects
Money & Finance, Wealth & Inequality, Europe, Neoliberalism