[lbo-talk] Servant culture

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>Just what is the proportion of American families who are rich 
>>enough to hire cleaners and _nannies_?  More importantly, what does 
>>the topic have to do with feminism?
>
>In her Harper's and In These Times articles on the subject, 
>Ehrenreich argued that the domestic labor debate had disappeared 
>from feminism in large part because feminist intellectuals solved 
>the problem by contracting out for toilet-swabbing. Subscribers to 
>femecon found this quickly confirmed by the so-called "dean of 
>feminist economics," Barbara Bergmann.
>
>Doug

You mean Barbara Bergmann employs cleaners, nannies, and other 
servants or that she has statistical evidence that confirms that 
feminism caused a larger proportion of American families to hire 
cleaners, nannies, and other servants than before?  I'm interested in 
finding out if Ehrenreich or anyone else can provide evidence to 
support her argument (if it can be called an "argument").
-- 
Yoshie

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