Re: feminism

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/06, Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Feminism, or other sorts of social rights appear in Capitalist states
> as an expression of inequality built into the state that is outside the
> overt operating wage structure in many ways.

Women have largely failed to obtain jobs in the unionized, well-paid
manufacturing sector that has been male-dominated.  The gender gap has
narrowed, however, because those jobs have been offshored to
developing countries or spun off or outsourced to non-unionized US
companies many of whose jobs go to immigrant workers -- all with the
agreements of the UAW, including the latest round of buyoffs at GM,
etc. -- while women on the average have begun to receive more formal
education than men, especially at the low end of class stratification.

> So that in advanced Capitalist
> states where wages and economism can't make headway to
> appeal to people
> on a broad basis for social change these forms of 'interactional'
> social relationships can appear outside the economic arguments for
> social change.  To motivate people to want to do some inchoate
> something.

What mobilized the French this spring was "inchoate something"
summarized in the idea of rejecting the "Précarité" (which goes beyond
job insecurity, cf.
<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9carit%C3%A9>) as well as
specific opposition to the actual Contrat Première Embauche [First
Employment Contract] (cf.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrat_premi%C3%A8re_embauche>).

Even in the USA, one of the few victories that people have won is
opposition to Bush's Social Security reform, as well as opposition to
the criminalization of undocumented immigrants.
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Yoshie
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