The fight for wages for housework
In the Seventies, one feminist movement campaigned to make domestic labour both visible and recompensed.
By Alice Vincent
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Art and the ruins of the left
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Where to find meaning
As Christianity in Britain declines, two new books ask: what should we believe in now?
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