reparations & exploitation

Michael Yates mikey+ at pitt.edu
Fri Mar 9 19:13:26 PST 2001


Well, I doubt sailors swab the deck with Q-tips!!

Michael Yates

kelley wrote:
>
> At 05:43 PM 3/9/01 -0800, Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:
>
> > > 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
> >*********
> >
> >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
>
> a man ain't a man if he actually calls cleaning a toilet swabbing
> it. whaddya use doug, a Qtip. swab. he must have good aim!



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