Wages For Housework Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/wages-for-housework/ Since 1975, the English Collective of Prostitutes has been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages. Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:56:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://prostitutescollective.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/favicon-260-x-260-150x150.png Wages For Housework Archives - English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/tag/wages-for-housework/ 32 32 OpenDemocracy: How Wages for Housework sparked an international solidarity movement https://prostitutescollective.net/opendemocracy-how-wages-for-housework-sparked-an-international-solidarity-movement/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:48:37 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20036 The 1970s movement paved the way for queer, Black, trans and sex working feminist organising across the world todayJake HallThe first thing to know about the international Wages for Housework campaign that began in the 1970s is that you shouldn’t take the name at face value. This wasn't some single-issue movement committed to putting pennies […]

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]]> Tribune: Sex Workers Unite and Take Over https://prostitutescollective.net/tribune-sex-workers-unite-and-take-over/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:38:57 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=20028 By Brit DawsonThe English Collective of Prostitutes was founded fifty years ago to protect sex workers. Despite the progress they have made in the years since, the industry remains criminalised — and exploitative and unsafe as a result.(Credit: Crossroads AV Collective.)On November 17, 1982, fifteen masked women walked, in groups of twos and threes, into […]

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]]> Visit WFH & ECP in major exhibition ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ https://prostitutescollective.net/visit-wfh-ecp-in-major-exhibition-hard-graft-work-health-and-rights/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:30:16 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=18139 As part of International Women’s Week celebrations, we’re planning a group visit to see ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ at the Wellcome Collection (183 Euston Road London NW1 2BE) on Sunday 9 March at 1pm.  If you would like to join us, please just turn up! The Home section of the exhibition includes magazines, flyers, press releases, […]

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]]> Wages for Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise https://prostitutescollective.net/wages-for-housework-the-story-of-a-movement-an-idea-a-promise/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:00:04 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=18127 "The Wages for Housework campaign asked a provocative question. More than 50 years later, it is still relevant" (The Guardian⁣)⁣A fascinating new book by Emily Callaci about the history of the International Wages for Housework Campaign is being launched in the UK next week. ⁣Wages for Housework The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a […]

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]]> ‘Money for prostitutes is money for Black women’: sex work, race and the English Collective of Prostitutes https://prostitutescollective.net/money-for-prostitutes-is-money-for-black-women-sex-work-race-and-the-english-collective-of-prostitutes/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:48:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17899 Lucy Cann, March 6th 2024 Figure 1: Engish Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) activists at their occupation of Holy Cross Church in November 1982 Introduction Formed in 1975 as an autonomous organisation within the Wages for Housework (WFH) movement, the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) emerged at a time when prostitution resurfaced in feminist debate. They […]

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]]> Camden New Journal: Waging War – 50 years of the Wages for Housework Campaign https://prostitutescollective.net/camden-new-journal-waging-war-50-years-of-the-wages-for-housework-campaign/ Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:02:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=17104 It’s 50 years since the Wages for Housework campaign was launched. Angela Cobbinah asks how far it has comeBy Angela CobbinahWomen’s Centre premises in King’s Cross in the 1970sIT is some time in the mid-1970s and a pensioner is stopped in a London street by a BBC camera crew and asked whether women should get paid […]

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]]> Video: ECP and Empower Thailand – The Global Women’s Strike Experience https://prostitutescollective.net/video-ecp-and-empower-thailand-the-global-womens-strike-experience/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 09:28:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=19519 In case you missed this recent in-person event, check out video recording below of ‘The Global Women’s Strike Experience’ featuring Charlotte Lee from the English Collective of Prostitutes, Liz Hilton, from Empower, the sex workers' collective in Thailand, and other fantastic speakers.Panelists who have been with the Wages For Housework Campaign for years, while others […]

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]]> Event: Wages for Housework, 50 years of campaigning – The Global Women’s Strike experience 28 May https://prostitutescollective.net/event-wages-for-housework-50-years-of-campaigning-the-global-womens-strike-experience-28-may/ Fri, 13 May 2022 19:29:00 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16966 Throughout 2022, the Wages for Housework Campaign is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a series of events, in person and online, and the launch of its community archives.  More info here. NEXT EVENT: The Global Women’s Strike Experience—Part 1 When: Saturday 28 May, 2-4pm, in person Where: Bishopsgate Institute, London EC2M 4QH Speakers: CRISSIE AMISS, […]

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]]> Event: Wages for Housework – 50 Years of Campaigning! March events https://prostitutescollective.net/wages-for-housework-50-years-of-campaigning-march-events/ Sat, 05 Mar 2022 21:27:24 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16253 Starting this month and throughout 2022, the International Wages for Housework Campaign (WFHC) will celebrate its golden anniversary and launch its 1972-2022 archives! The ECP started as an autonomous organisation within the WFHC and at the time the WFHC was one of the few women’s organisations that was ready to work with sex workers and help […]

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]]> Yes! Magazine: 60 Years of Intersectional Feminism: An Interview with Selma James https://prostitutescollective.net/yes-magazine-60-years-of-intersectional-feminism-an-interview-with-selma-james/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:20:10 +0000 https://prostitutescollective.net/?p=16161 Selma James PHOTO COURTESY OF CROSSROADS AV COLLECTIVE From anti-communist witch-hunts to independence movements to wages for housework and rights for sex workers, 91-year-old Selma James has been in the struggle for a lifetime. BY LEILA HAWKINS When I arrive at Crossroads Women’s Centre in North London to interview Selma James, she is in a meeting […]

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