Feminism has led to greater worker exploitation

[Knotted]

Ummmm.

This stance seems somewhat incongruous with your postings on immigration.



Woof

The difference is that with modern migration there are waves after waves and a general increase in the fluidity of the movement of labour. The problem is to do with rates of change rather than change per se. That is the rates in which people are arriving (and leaving) rather than the fact that people have arrived. But anyway, I don't want to derail this thread.

 

[Knotted]

On a slight tangent, if feminism is seen to be a push towards greater equality between people, then it would seem according to the thread title that more equality means more exploitation...?

If so, we went wrong somewhere. Perhaps it's because the recognition is not yet widespread that the real battle is between people and the leaders.

I hope that is the great post-feminism battle we get into.

I don't think the problem is with greater equality as such. Its to do with the fact that household work and child rearing are not exploitation in the capitalist sense - there is no profit made from it. Therefore if the time spent on these is reduced in favour of wage earning labour then there is greater (capitalist) exploitation.

Another side of this is that its becoming the norm for middle class families to employ cleaners and nannies. So to an extent household chores etc. are becoming part of capitalist exploitation.

 

[ska invita]

On a slight tangent, if feminism is seen to be a push towards greater equality between people, then it would seem according to the thread title that more equality means more exploitation...?

If so, we went wrong somewhere. Perhaps it's because the recognition is not yet widespread that the real battle is between people and the leaders.

I hope that is the great post-feminism battle we get into.

Have there been any important feminist-economic works? Im no expert on feminist texts - is it fair to say that feminists have somewhat sidestepped economics?

Im fairly sure that Feminist critiques of marxist historical materialism have focussed on additional factors of exploitation (patriarchy, racism etc,) rather than engaging in a feminist look at economics.

if anyone knows any feminists texts on economics please post. Im sure there must be some.