WSTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proletariat, Putting-Out System, Class Consciousness
8 Oct 2012
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Using women for family work w/o paying them. Using women as a reserve army of labour hired when the economy needs workers, fired when it does not. Government-subsidized maternal and child health care, child-care services, financial allowances for children. Racial and ethnic views (on: women doing house work) may not have been integrated into the gendered class analyses. Wives and mothers having permanent full-time jobs does not mean they don t do house work. Giving welfare-state benefits to women will lock them into child cares as their prime role. Recognition that women are seen as second class citizens. It provided a gender analysis of the use of women as paid and unpaid workers in capitalist, communist, and socialist economies. It made visible how necessary women s work in the home is to the functioning of the economy and to the social reproduction of future workers.
