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Is It Wrong to Pay for Housework?

From: Hypatia
Volume 17, Number 2, Spring 2002
pp. 52-66 | 10.1353/hyp.2002.0039

Abstract

This paper assesses arguments that paying for housework compromises the moral integrity of either the buyer or seller or both. I find that none provides adequate justification for avoiding paying for housework. Instead, I argue that the vigorous pursuit of justice for women workers will best remedy injustice in service sector occupations, including paid housework.



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