First edition of The Second Shift by Clare Gallagher. First impression. Medium format hardback with bellyband in nearfine condition, there is a small soft bump to bottom of rear boards. Signed by the artist with a personalised inscription on the title page and also on an additional postcard. About The Second Shift is the term given to the hidden shift of housework and childcare primarily carried out by women on top of their paid employment. It is physical, mental and emotional labour which demands effort, skill and time but is unpaid, unaccounted for, unequally distributed and largely unrecognised. Hidden in plain sight and veiled by familiarity and insignificance, the second shift is largely absent from photographs of home and family. This work is an attempt to recognise the complexity and value of this invisible work. It is a call for resistance to the capitalist, patriarchal and aesthetic systems which ignore it.
