[lbo-talk] Ehrenreich responds to BDL

Kelley the-squeeze at pulpculture.org
Fri Aug 22 04:24:04 PDT 2003


At 06:33 AM 8/22/03 -0400, Michael Pollak scribbled:
>at the pay rates are.
>
>The figures refer to what proportion of cleaning people are employed
>by a
>service that takes a cut. (She says 6 out of 7 are not. Her
>participation observation represents the work experience of the 1 out
>of 7
>who are. IMHO, it should be generalized with that in mind.) The
>figure
>for pay ($20/hr) was taken from Wojtek's post, where he said the
>problem
>was not the rate of pay but the size of the services' cut. I said
>that of
>course for 6/7 who don't work for services, there is no such cut. I
>assumed that whatever the market rate, it would be the same for
>both. I
>was making no claims about what that rate was in general.

in other words, you didn't read the book. check


>As for the rate of pay of domestics in New York, that's based on my
>asking
>everyone I knew how much they paid when I finally decided to hire
>someone.
>I knwo anyone who was paying less than $50 to get their apartment
>cleaned;
>the median was $60. In my case, it takes two hours. I'm sure other
>people's take longer. I was using those figures because this is the
>only
>market I know anything about personally.

which is why i said: how could you possibly know?


>As for comparisons to upstate, your figures make comparative sense.

in other words, the pay of $20/hr sucks. what i said.

Kelley



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