This book discusses the different ways in which feminists have understood labor, especially women’s labor, in relation to issues of freedom and oppression. The book encompasses four centuries of capitalism and examines feminist positions tied to numerous political traditions and traces feminist theories of labor through this historical framework, conceptualizing them through three broad trajectories to understand why and how feminists disagree on the issue of women’s labor. These trajectories are: feminism of equality, feminism of critical equality, and feminism of social reproduction. Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction is a book about theory. Only it is a theory that is needed if we want to create a world where satisfying human needs for safety, health, survival, and creativity is a top priority.

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