A Woman’s Labour Collective
A Woman’s Labour Collective
A Woman’s Labour collective is a new interdisciplinary space of coming together to explore, address and influence the rectification of inequalities related to gender and the concept of “labour”.
Labour (ˈlā-bər) *
- expenditure of physical or mental effort especially when difficult or compulsory
- human activity that provides the goods or services in an economy
- the physical activities (such as dilation of the cervix and contraction of the uterus) involved in giving birth
- workers considered as a group
- distress or burden
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The collective is a project among BNU, Nyenrode Business University and Women in Academia Support Network (WiASN), open for collaborations locally, nationally and globally.
We are interested in diverse, innovative, radical and creative acts of care related to labour, ideas that can lead to a fairer future of labour and interdisciplinary-intersectional approaches in response to the inefficient definition of labour as related to women.
Our wages paid for sitting on the ground. - Mary Collier
Read an excerpt of The Woman’s Labour by Mary Collier (1739).
The collective co-founders and core members are guest co-editors for the upcoming special collection '“A Woman’s Labour” – Speculations, Interpretations and Evaluations of Health Inequalities Beyond Disciplines’ in the SAGE Women’s Health Journal.
To connect, collaborate and find more please contact Dr Liana Psarologaki at liana.psarologaki@bucks.ac.uk
