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Frances Gregory fonds

  • CA ON0034 10-094
  • Fonds
  • 1969-1985
This fonds contains material from Frances Gregory's work as a founding members of the Toronto Wages for Housework Committee, the Mother-Led Union, and INTERCEDE, including documents related to significant events such as the Bain Avenue Co-op rent freeze, the occupation of Nellie's Hostel, and a domestic workers' picket in Toronto. The fonds also contains material related to Wages for Housework affiliated groups such as COYOTE, BEAVER, and Wages Due Lesbians, and provides some background information on the development of the early women's liberation movement in Canada.
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Ce fonds contient des documents relatifs au travail de Frances Gregory en tant que membre fondatrice du Toronto Wages for Housework Committee, du Mother-Led Union et d'INTERCEDE, y compris des documents relatifs à des événements importants tels que le gel des loyers de la Bain Avenue Co-op, l'occupation du Nellie's Hostel et un piquet de grève de travailleuses domestiques à Toronto. Le fonds contient également des documents relatifs aux groupes affiliés à Wages for Housework tels que COYOTE, BEAVER et Wages Due Lesbians, et fournit des informations générales sur le développement du premier mouvement de libération des femmes au Canada.

Gregory, Frances

Toronto Wages for Housework Committee

This series includes records and material related to the Wages for Housework Movement, an International campaign which encompassed the Toronto Wages for Housework Committee and similar collectives around the world. Gregory was one of the founding members of the Toronto Committee. Through this series, researchers can learn about the relationship between the Toronto WFH committee and the larger International network. Researchers can also learn about the coordination between WFH and other affiliated women's liberation groups in Toronto, and read Gregory's analyses of women's right to compensation for their domestic labour.

Gregory, Frances

Wages for Housework : Misc.

This file contains correspondence and articles related to Wages for Housework and its position within the larger women's liberation movement as well as the larger leftist movement. This file also contains an issue of the Winnipeg Women's Liberation Newsletter, a poster for a National Women's Conference in Houston, campaign news, a speaking calendar, and other related promotional material

Book Group Statement

This file contains notes, an advertisement, and a statement by a feminist book group related to Toronto Wages for Housework

Bain Avenue

This file contains notes, minutes, statements, and promotional material for a rent freeze at the Bain Avenue Co-op initiated by members of Toronto wages for Housework who were living there at the time. This file includes copies of the Bain Avenue Tenants' Voice newsletter

Nellie's Hostel

This file contains material related to WFH's occupation of Nellie's Hostel, during which the hostel refused to turn any women away in order to protest the lack of adequate funding and facilities for battered women's shelters. The file includes newspaper clippings, communiques, informational mailings, rough notes, correspondence, a list of demands, and other associated documents

Montreal Conferences

This file contains notes and statements from a Wages for Housework conference in Montreal, including information about organizational conflict between two factions of the Toronto WFH Committee
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