This semester we continue our exploration of Marxist feminism and social reproduction theory. Join us for a discussion of three articles by Black women labor activists in and around the US Communist movement: Louise Thompson Patterson, "Toward a Brighter Dawn" (1936); Esther Cooper Jackson, "The Negro Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism" (1940); and Marvel Cooke, "The Bronx Slave Market" (1950). These pathbreaking but long-neglected texts are among the earliest Black feminist analysis of racialized and gendered labor exploitation.
To RSVP and to receive copies of the readings, e-mail the Marxist Working Group organizers.
