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<DIV><FONT color=#000080>a very clinical discussion of a serious and tragic
human problem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=dmonaco@pop3.utoledo.edu href="mailto:dmonaco@pop3.utoledo.edu">Diane
Monaco</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com
href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:14 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Human trafficking (was economics 101)</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>At 11:07 AM 6/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite">At 10:32 AM 6/6/2002 -0400, Diane wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite">At 12:28 AM 6/6/2002 -0700, you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT color=#000080>economics
101:</FONT><BR> <BR> <BR>U.S. Report On Human
Trafficking<BR> <A
href="http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1152/6-5-2002/20020605084503_17.html"><FONT
color=#000080>http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1152/6-5-2002/20020605084503_17.html</A></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></FONT>Human
trafficking is increasing and one has to go beyond simple 101 supply and
demand to attempt to understand why. Additional and more advanced
intermediate level influences include:<BR><BR>1) What factors are behind
supply and demand and how are they changing?<BR>2) How is market structure
changing?<BR>3) Understanding the trends to normalize certain kinds of human
buying and selling.<BR>4) Corporate globalization displaces workers
everywhere.<BR>5) Eroding borders increase all trade flows.<BR>6) Media
conglomerates can more easily influence demand.<BR>7) Post-Fordism
production trends.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>A usual smorgasbord of liberal
blood-letting. Slavery has been one of the key pre-modern institutions,
widely spread in the Middle East and Africa well before American took
advantage of it. It was curbed by the European powers and later the
influence of Soviet communism - but in the post-cold war era marked by the
return to localism and tribalism, even this traditional institution crawled
from under its rock. <BR><BR>wojtek</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I have no
problem taking this analysis beyond "liberal" blood-letting and postmodern
slavery. In fact, this is what I mostly do, and in that vein, it is an
important meaning of the word "radical" -- getting to the roots of something
like say oppression. How about some radical analysis for a change? [in a
nutshell]<BR><BR>1) Socio-economic order under emerging capitalism<BR>Divisions
within production and social reproduction.<BR>Freed of labor duties:
landed men, clergymen, elite men.<BR>Paid labor: non-landed men, non-elite
men.<BR>Unpaid labor: slaves, women, children.<BR><BR>Upshot: Class,
race/ethnic, and gender oppression.<BR><BR><BR>2) Socio-economic order under
feudalism<BR>Divisions within production and social reproduction.<BR>Freed of
labor duties: landed men, clergymen, elite men<BR>Paid labor:
non-landed men, non-elite men<BR>Unpaid labor: women,
children<BR><BR>Upshot: Class and gender oppression.<BR><BR><BR>3)
Socio-economic order as hunters and gatherers (Mesolithic period)<BR>Divisions
within production emerge as new techniques are discovered: large
animal/plough agriculture, weaving, etc.. <BR>Separations between men and women
emerge as men are pushed outward to plough and women inward to do everything
else.<BR><BR>Upshot: Gender oppression emerges as men control the food
supply (resources).<BR><BR><BR>4) Earliest hominids. <BR>No divisions
within production and social reproduction.<BR>No human
oppression.<BR><BR><BR>The most fundamental divisions humans have ever concocted
for humans are based on sex, and gender oppression is the tap root of all other
forms of human oppression. Relating to what you mention in your post
above, what kind of "influence" did Soviet communism have on eliminating
oppression if in just a few short years during the post cold-war era so easily
patriarchal/slave institutions could (re)emerge?<BR><BR>Radical upshot: If
gender oppression is not eliminated no oppression will be
eliminated.<BR><BR>Diane<BR></BODY></HTML>