Julie McIntyre

I'm an educator who has worked with children and youth in schools, libraries, art organizations, and residential detention centers. My interests include geography and the history of architecture and urbanism, exploring cities on foot, playing games, eating treats, and making arts and crafts.
Julie McIntyre has written 1 posts for Viewpoint Magazine

Care Work and the Power of Women: An Interview with Selma James

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In their 1972 pamphlet The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, Selma James and Mariarosa Dalla Costa presented an original and influential analysis of “unwaged work.” This concept, which identified the care work that women do in the home as an essential element of the reproduction of capitalism, opened the door to powerful new forms of struggle among working class women and men. James founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, based on the demand that women should be paid for their round-the-clock care work, since it reproduces labor-power day after day. Continue reading »

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