Jobs and gender (was: Gender, Race, and Publishing on the Left)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Wojtek:
>All I was saying  is that if the
>management would not put such a squeeze on workers and good jobs, the
>unions would have fewer incentives to resort to racism and sexism to defend
>those jobs.  That, of course, would not change their sexist attitudes, it
>would merely reduce their sexist behavior.

Fundamentally, without changing sexist attitudes, the only workers unions
are always committed to protect--both in economically good times and bad
times--would be white male workers, according to your own argument. Doesn't
this point to the absolute importance of battling racism and sexism head on
within unions?

Yoshie