>Ah, yes, but for the deleterious impact of the feminist movement,
>women of the class who hire immigrant nannies and maids from Haiti,
>Jamaica, etc. and, say, sit on the boards of big multinational
>corporations today would be employing the same immigrant nannies and
>maids and organizing charity balls for worthy genteel causes. If it
>were not for affirmative action due to the feminist movement, the
>civil rights movement, etc., they wouldn't even have to import
>Haitian and Jamaican immigrant nannies and maids at all -- they
>would be giving all such jobs to US-born Black nannies and maids.
What *is* your point? Is it some Coxian attempt to absolve any left-of-center movement of criticism? The domestic labor debate used to be important in feminism and it isn't anymore. Much of its initial radicalism was bourgeoisified, giving us Barbara Bergmann, Ehrenreich would like feminists to think and talk again about domestic labor. Why's that so icky?
Doug