-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Nathan S. Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:50 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] OWS Demands working group: jobs for all!
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
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