ALL WORK AND NO PAY

GB 1976 | Director: London Women’s Film Group, Women’s Centre London | Editor: Pam Bosworth, Jenny Clevett | Music: Jean Watson, Joy Purnell, Boo Watson, Lorna Boschman | Production: Jane Oliver, Marcia Kirby, Power of Women Collective / Wages for Housework Campaign | Colour | DCP of VHS | 31 min | english OV | London Community Video Archive (LCVA)

A central theme of the autonomous women's movement of the 1970s was unpaid housework – mostly done by women – and the corresponding societal division of labour into spheres of (re-) production. A related problem was women's considerably worse pay for wage labour. In 1972, the international "Wages for Housework" campaign began, politicising housework and raising awareness of the historic dimension of this model for the division of labour.

The campaign film All Work And No Pay was produced in 1975, at the height of the movement, by the Power of Women Collective (London, Bristol); it was broadcast in 1976 on the BBC's Open Door programme. The London Women’s Film Group, a feminist collective, participated in the shoot. The film provides deep insight into the campaign: sharp analyses, political songs, women's group meetings, clever comments by passersby, the creation of international connections in the women's movement, etc. Multiple connections to our present day suggest themselves. It is characteristic of the film that „race, class and gender“ are examined, not least from an intersectional perspective.

Source: LCVA
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Acronyms
amer. American English
b/w Black and white
OV Original version
SUB Subtitles
+SUB electronic live subtitling (below the image)
INT Intertitles
Countries
AT Austria
FRG Federal Republic of Germany (historic)
BLR Belarus
DE Germany
CAN Canada
GDR German Democratic Republic (historic)
EGY Egypt
FR France
GB Great Britain
URY Uruguay
BRA Brasil
SWE Sweden
UKR Ukraine
PL Poland
IDN Indonesia
PRT Portugal
HRV Croatia
ECU Ecuador
HUN Hungary
AUS Australia
IT Italy
MEX Mexico
IND India
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