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How it Started...
Barbara Ehrenreich.
Background:
Ehrenreich says there are elements of misogyny within the Act. The single
mother is exploited and must work for less pay than is liveable. The states
anti-unemployment scheme facilitates this.
They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared
for
They endure deprivation so inflation will be low
Ehrenreich is thus saying that the working poor, particularly women
are the
philanthropists of society and the Welfare Reform Act of 1996
fuels this.
Main Criticisms
Lauren
Heavy emphasis on capitalism causing
gender inequality
Inequalities have already been reduced
under capitalist systems
Places to much emphasis to the economic
sphere, doesnt focus on the domestic sphere
When it does, simply assumes all homemakers
are exploited by husbands/fathers
Revolution is unnecessary, unlikely and
undesirable