My Family’s Slave

Re:My Family’s Slave by achou on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @10:20PM (#14355101)

"the history of paid work suggests that the unpaid labor of mothers in the family is the critical thing"

Thank you for this much needed shift in perspective. It should be obvious: mothers' work has been on the critical path for humanity, and other work has shifted around to accommodate it. This is such a forehead slapping observation.

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Re:My Family’s Slave by Mz on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @10:22PM (#14355111)

You might enjoy the book More Work for Mother. (I don't know why this is being downvoted, but the book is about the history of how domestic labor was shifted off men to women to free men up to get paid jobs.)

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-history-...

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Re:My Family’s Slave by achou on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @10:31PM (#14355161)

Thanks, will check it out.

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