Re: low-wage workers in less-developed countries

[Doug Henwood]

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:

>At 01:39 PM 4/3/98 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>homework and piecework strategies. As my pal Larry Summers put it, I don't
>>see exactly what the supposed revolution in production has actually
>>revolutionized.
>
>
>How about the destruction of the household as the production unit?  Moving
>production from the household to the factory had two important consequences
>for the organization of work:
>
>- separation of two spheres, production and reproduction of labor power
>(implying the the proces of valorization described by the theory of value);
>
>- direct managerial control of the work process itself

I wasn't talking about the revolution of the 19th century, but the supposed
one of the late 20th.

Maggie Coleman has some fascinating info about the female LFPR in the early
19th century - a level of paid work that was disguised by being carried on
at home instead of in factories. You here Maggie?

Doug