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    Keeping wages for house cleaning and nannies low allows c... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Career women have an interest in keeping wages for domestic workers as low as possible

    Keeping wages for house cleaning and nannies low allows career women to retain more surplus for themselves

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    On the other side of the debate, Brenner (2000) argues that women are not uniformly exploited by men across economic class lines: indeed, for working class women their unpaid work as housewives serves the working class as a whole, because the whole class benefits when its daily and future reproduction needs are met by women’s nurturing and childcare work. They argue further that middle and upper class women’s economic privileges will inevitably lead them to betray working class women in any cros

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