>At 04:04 PM 3/10/01 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>>If I'm a black woman who makes 15% less than a white man who does
>>>half the work I do (is productivity in the equation anywhere?),
>>>he's not "less exploited by 15%" . . . I'm not even sure I could
>>>do the math to figure this one out.
>>
>>Standard wage equations, in which pay is dependent on an array of
>>attributes, like age, experience, occupation, education, etc. Take
>>a look at Patrick Mason's papers
>><http://www.nd.edu/~pmason/Research.html> for examples.
>>
>>Doug
>
>
>what i'd like to know is why no one picked up on jordan's use of
>"productivity" without pointing out that such notions are exactly
>what we're talking about when we talk about oppression! feh
If someone else had picked up on it, we wouldn't have had the opportunity to hear you point out our deficiencies!
If you know how to measure a worker's productivity, please share it with the world. You might win a Nobel or something.
Doug