The 1970s Wages Against Housework (WAH) movement has much to offer as we form a “new normal” for life and work within the Covid-19 pandemic. WAH feminist philosophers Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, and Silvia Federici, as well as WAH critic Angela Davis outline the ways in which the housewife functions as a laborer within capitalist accumulation, as her duties to care for the home and rear the children generate the possibility of the husband to labor outside the home. This role of the housewife in Dalla Costa and James’ “social factory” parallels the work of teachers and the chorus of demands to “return to the classroom” that were placed on teachers in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Highlighting these parallels, the argument of this essay is simple: Covid-19 has visibilized the underpaid and unpaid labor of teachers. We ought to engage this moment of visibilization to demand transformative change to the teaching profession. Due to the parallels between WAH's “housewife” and teachers, we have much to learn from WAH theorizing as we demand those transformative changes, especially now as we solidify our “new normal” more than two years since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

20 世纪 70 年代的“减持家务工资”（WAH）运动大有裨益，因为我们在 Covid-19 大流行期间形成了生活和工作的“新常态”。 WAH 女权主义哲学家玛丽亚罗莎·达拉·科斯塔 (Mariarosa Dalla Costa)、塞尔玛·詹姆斯 (Selma James) 和西尔维娅·费德里奇 (Silvia Federici) 以及 WAH 评论家安吉拉·戴维斯 (Angela Davis) 概述了家庭主妇在资本主义积累中作为劳动者的运作方式，因为她照顾家庭和抚养孩子的职责产生了丈夫外出工作的可能性。达拉·科斯塔和詹姆斯的“社会工厂”中家庭主妇的角色与教师的工作以及在Covid-19大流行早期阶段对教师提出的“重返课堂”要求相似。为了强调这些相似之处，本文的论点很简单：Covid-19 凸显了教师工资过低和无偿劳动。我们应该利用这一可见时刻来要求对教师职业进行变革。由于 WAH 的“家庭主妇”和教师之间的相似之处，当我们要求这些变革时，我们可以从 WAH 的理论中学到很多东西，特别是在 Covid-19 大流行开始两年多以来我们巩固“新常态”的时候。