[lbo-talk] OWS Demands working group: jobs for all!

[Nathan S.]

On 10/20/2011 10:36 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> Nonsense. The times of full employment in the last century have been
> world war and something as bad, society-wide unpaid reproductive labor
> and unimaginable exploitation in the periphery. It made *some* people
> freer while the rest paid for it horribly. I can't imagine demanding a
> return to that.

W/r/t "unpaid reproductive labor and unimaginable exploitation" to what 
exactly are you referring? The TVA? Or the widespread displacement of 
southern whites in the US following the Depression-era reforms?

And while world war may have led to full employment, immediately after 
the end of the Second World War the Nat'l Ass'n of Manufacturers 
launched a fierce and well-funded attack against labor. If I'm not 
mistaken there was even a widespread sentiment about the need to 
encourage women to return to the home and have children because it was 
simply too dangerous to have them in factories/offices as part of that 
same campaign.

-- 
Nathan