On 10/14/06, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
