A survivor's-edition case that women's dependence is a labour crisis, not a natural condition.

Woman and Labour

Olive Schreiner · 1911

Schreiner's 1911 book — reconstructed after fire destroyed most of a much larger manuscript — argues that industrial society had stripped women of productive labour and left them dependent on sex-attraction alone, a condition she calls 'parasitism' and treats as dangerous to women, their children, and the race. Dedicated to the militant suffragist Constance Lytton, it reframes the vote as downstream of a more basic demand: the right to work.

7 chapters · 56,571 words · ~4.3 hr read