Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Peyton Johnson | Judge: Jacob Lugo
Labor Unions are not effective at creating better working conditions for women.
Timm’16
Timm, Jonathan. “A Labor Movement That’s More About Women.” The Atlantic. August 25, 2016. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/the-womens-labor-movement/497294/
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Patriarchy, domination, and submission are inherent in the work place – labor unions occlude the true source of the problem.
Weeks’ 11 Kathi, The Problem With Work, pp 20-22
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The Labor Union topic accepts and legitimates the need to work as a natural part of life. The topic cannot even contemplate that it is work itself that is the problem – but it is. The workplace is necessarily a space of domination, patriarchy, hierarchy, and inequality – the problem is not with the conditions of working but with WORKING AS A CONDITION.
Weeks’ 11 Kathi, The Problem With Work, pp 1-5
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Our alternative is to embrace the refusal of work. We need a liberation from work, not a liberation of work.
Weeks’ 11 Kathi, The Problem With Work, pp 96ff
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We should center the debate on the point of view of those who resist dominant norms and institutions – universal principles are too abstract and overlook historical and material realities.
And, traditional cost benefit analysis sees day to day violence as inconsequential which allows us to refuse to recognize it.
Enloe ‘04 Cynthia Enloe. Professor of International Relations. “The Curious Feminist.” 2004