reparations & exploitation

Lisa & Ian Murray seamus at accessone.com
Fri Mar 9 17:43:57 PST 2001



> Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> >To conceptualize the second shift as men exploiting women encourages
> >us to overlook what is to me the important economic arrangement
> >here: the more valuable labor done in the household, the lower
> >the wages on which workers can survive. In the end, who really
> >benefits from the second shift? It is not men as a group; rather,
> >it is the capitalist class that can shunt the costs of reproducing
> >the labor force back onto the workers' households.
>
> Yeah, but what about the men who don't have to swab the toilet?
>
> Doug
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A man ain't a man unless he can clean toilets faster and fiercer than a woman; now where's my ECOVER [http://www.ecover.com/] and my brush :-)

Ian



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