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Jun. 11th, 2007 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheCourt rules against home care workers
It's a catch-22. The industry would collapse, because there just isn't the funds for this type of service. The service is so utterly needed that, if it were to disappear, you would see the frayed condition of health services in this country. The service these women provide is vitally important.
Yet the women who work in this industry put in grueling hours. Really, this is capitalism at its worst: keeping its knee on the throat of undereducated women. If we didn't have this pool of workers, what would happen to all of those seniors who need care?
In this economic system, we have good reason not to educate our children well.
In this country, there is a need for uneducated women. And they're there to work their hands to threads, for $8/hr, no overtime.
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It's a catch-22. The industry would collapse, because there just isn't the funds for this type of service. The service is so utterly needed that, if it were to disappear, you would see the frayed condition of health services in this country. The service these women provide is vitally important.
Yet the women who work in this industry put in grueling hours. Really, this is capitalism at its worst: keeping its knee on the throat of undereducated women. If we didn't have this pool of workers, what would happen to all of those seniors who need care?
In this economic system, we have good reason not to educate our children well.
In this country, there is a need for uneducated women. And they're there to work their hands to threads, for $8/hr, no overtime.
(cross-posted to
feminist)