reparations & exploitation

[Dennis Breslin]

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.
> 

Why does this have to be an either/or, mutually exclusive, and absolute?

DB