[PEN-L:28719] Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery

[joanna bujes <joanna.bujes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:29 PM 07/27/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> Heavens, we don't want to quote the actual article, since it includes the
> observations of the women in question, rather than technological
> pessimists sitting in California. Of course, this may all just be
> capitalist propaganda - Thurow failed to call Shiva for a comment!

I am personally abjectly grateful for the invention of the washing
machine....oh, so, so, grateful. BUT I do not want this gratitude to be
used as an end-all argument for the universal superiority of machines over
manual labor.

Like I said, the mechanization of labor is not a simple issue. I do not
think it's always a good idea and I am not comfortable with arguments that
generalize from women in Mali (or my appreciation of washing machines) to
the industrial or the "green" revolution.

Joanna