{"id":39265,"date":"2011-09-10T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyinequality.wordpress.com\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2011-11-09T01:05:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:05:46","slug":"when-there%e2%80%99s-housework-to-do%e2%80%a6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/09\/10\/when-there%e2%80%99s-housework-to-do%e2%80%a6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Work, Housework, and Corporatization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the flyer in yesterday\u2019s mail, \u201cLife\u2019s too short to clean your own home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/1.jpg4.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39338\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/1.jpg4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/1.jpg4.png 459w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/1.jpg4-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Naturally, for the people who work for <a href=\"http:\/\/familyinequality.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/05\/when-theres-housework-to-do\/clean.thecleaningauthority.com\">The Cleaning Authority<\/a>, life is not to short to clean <em>someone else\u2019s<\/em> home &#8212; and love it, as this woman on the inside flap apparently does:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Maybe she\u2019s happy because she has a job she likes &#8212; even though she would be miserable cleaning her own home.<\/p>\n<p>The sociological truth is that it\u00a0<em>is<\/em> different to clean someone else\u2019s home. Today\u2019s corporate cleaners are different from an informal cleaning relationship. \u00a0Corporatizing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/familyinequality.wordpress.com\/tag\/housework\/\">housework<\/a> changes its social nature. \u00a0That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not unpleasant work. But cleaning the toilet of an anonymous person may be less degrading than cleaning the toilet of someone you have a personal (subordinate) relationship with. On the other hand, maybe people love cleaning toilets for people they really love.<\/p>\n<p>The rationality of market dynamics ideally also makes gender irrelevant.\u00a0\u00a0In that ideal, not real, marketized world, then, maybe there is no such thing as housework \u2014 just work and workers. Would that be better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A world without housework?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=familyinequality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10222819&amp;post=3071&amp;subd=familyinequality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,55],"class_list":["post-39265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-capitalism","tag-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39265"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39286,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39265\/revisions\/39286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}