[lbo-talk] Brad DeLong's dubious view of layoff restrictions

[Jim Devine]

me:
>> the big change in the labor force participation  rate during the
last 5  decades or so has been the shift of women from producing
use-values at home to producing exchange-values in market-oriented 
businesses. The former work does not get counted as part of the labor
force, but the latter does not.<<

WS:
> That is a good thing, no? .... <

whether or not it's a "good thing" is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

(In any event, the women's "double day" is a big thing: many work in
the market _and_ also do a lot of unpaid labor at home, since many men
haven't taken up domestic labor in a significant way.)

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Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles