>it's also, as someone else already mentioned, occupational
>segregation. that is a FAR bigger problem, in my view.
I agree. Gendered, racialized, and other divisions of labor can continue to be a problem even if we get around to abolishing M-C-M'.
I wrote earlier:
At 1:27 AM -0500 3/1/01, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>Guaranteeing jobs to all in itself doesn't solve the problem of
>gendered, racialized, & other divisions of labor, though it probably
>decreases the degree of the problem a great deal. Imagine a society
>in which everyone has a job _but_ some categories of people --
>women, blacks, disabled, whatever -- tend to have jobs with lower
>wages, lower prestige, lower intellectual stimulation, worse working
>conditions, etc. than others -- the problem not unlike that of
>actually and formerly existing socialist societies....
We need to consciously work against the gendered, racialized, & other divisions of labor under socialism as well as capitalism, while struggling to socialize reproductive labor in such a way that reproductive labor will be neither "individual women's work at home" nor "women's work in the welfare state."
Yoshie