What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
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What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.Clara Zetkin
In the same manner the capitalists use child labour to depress women's wages and the work of machines to depress all human labour.
Clara Zetkin
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
Clara Zetkin
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
Clara Zetkin
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.
Clara Zetkin
When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
Clara Zetkin
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