Visit WFH & ECP in major exhibition ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’
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, songs, photographs, and posters documenting the political and intersectional focus of the International Wages for Housework campaign (IWFHC) from the 1970s to today. IWFHC and our autonomous organisations (Black Women for Wages for Housework, English Collective of Prostitutes, Wages Due Lesbians & WinVisible) revolutionised the recognition of unwaged caring work and led to the pathbreaking UN decision (at the Third & Fourth World Conferences on Women, Nairobi 1985, Beijing 1995) to measure and value women’s unwaged work in every country’s economic statistics. Our materials show the breadth of our campaigning which includes anti-sexism, anti-racism, anti-deportation, health and environmental justice, mothers and other carers, women with disabilities, queer women, rape survivors, sex workers and domestic workers.
The Street section of the exhibition has an installation by Lindsey Mendick replicating the Holy Cross Church which the English Collective of Prostitutes occupied for 12 days in November 1982 to protest against ‘police illegality and racism’, as well as other material about the movement to decriminalise sex work by the ECP and SWARM.
The Exhibition runs until 27 April and is open Tuesday to Sunday 10am until 6pm. Entry is free.
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STOP PRESS: Wages for Housework, the story of a movement, an idea, a promise by Emily Callaci is a new book receiving great reviews:
A must read in 2025 Observer ● The Wages for Housework Campaign asked a provocative question. More than 50 years later, it is still relevant Guardian ● I found myself nodding in agreement The Telegraph ● Fascinating The Times ● Thought-provoking Kirkus
