On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> Men as a group don't benefit from having full-time unpaid housekeepers, etc?
> Sure, capitalists benefit too, but why more than if men and women shared
> equally? In any case, why not both? The situation is exactly the same as
> wage labor: there is a transfer of labor from women to men due to coercive
> circumstances. It's exploitation. --jks
I agree. However, if you look at the second shift and see nothing but men exploiting women, you're missing an important aspect of the exploitation here. It's an interesting (if somewhat depressing) imbrication of capitalist and patriarchal exploitation.
Miles