Re: [Pen-l] supply & demand at work

[raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:41 PM, ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This thread has already yielded new information and proved
> its worth to me ;-).
>
>        --ravi


Likewise. I had no idea that the prevalence of exploitation in the sex
industry was even controversial before this exchange.

Another aspect of this exchange I find very fascinating is the
tendency to look at every activity from the one-dimensional
perspective of labor theory. This leads to some frankly absurd
oversimplifications e.g. comparing sex work with factory labor.

I thought it was one of the evils of capitalism that it reduces all
form of work to some fungible, quantifiable labor. Which makes it even
more surprising to see that type of analysis from Marxists.

I'd like to read the work of Laura Agustin (whose ideas on first
glance seem very problematic to me) in some detail and perhaps revisit
this subject at a later date.
-raghu.


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