Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women's Work - Couverture souple

Brown, Jenny

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 162963638X ISBN 13 : 9781629636382

Editeur : PM Press, 2019

Synopsis

When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested 'More babies, please,' they openly expressed what U.S. policymakers have been discussing for decades with greater discretion. Using technical language like 'age structure,' 'dependency ratio,' and 'entitlement crisis,' establishment think tanks are raising the alarm: if U.S. women don't have more children, we'll face an aging workforce, slack consumer demand, and a stagnant economy. Feminists generally believe that a prudish religious bloc is responsible for the fight over reproductive freedom in the U.S., but hidden behind this conventional explanation is a dramatic fight over women's reproductive labour. On one side, elite policymakers want an expanding workforce reared with a minimum of employer spending and a maximum of unpaid women's work. On the other side, women are refusing to produce children at levels desired by economic planners. With little access to childcare, family leave, health care, and with insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting a spontaneous birth strike. In other countries, panic over low birth rates has led governments to underwrite childbearing with generous universal programs, but in the U.S., women have not yet realised the potential of our bargaining position. When we do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improving the difficult working conditions U.S. parents now face when raising children.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jenny Brown is a women's liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to have morning-after pill contraception available over-the-counter in the U.S. She is co-author of Women's Liberation and National Health Care.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PM Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 162963638X
• ISBN 13: 9781629636382
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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