Nancy Folbre on "Women's Work and the Limits of Capitalism"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNBQU_ESqtw
Just say "No" to GDP!
Two other things struck me:
First, if unpaid work is so very important, but is totally (or almost totally) ignored
by economics, what sort of thing is economics? Alternative, how dreadfully and awfully
incomplete is the discipline/are the standard theories/approaches.
Secondly, Folbre made a very interesting argument that there's even more inequality in the USA than you think--because the entry of women into the workplace increased inequality.
And, that explains a phenomenon I have noted previously on this blog (and something which I find ugly to behold)--a lack of solidarity.
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