{"product_id":"9781629636382","title":"Birth Strike : The Hidden Fight over Women's Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe American empire military needs people. As Condoleeza Rice, as  Secretary of State, said some decades back: Generational   commitments require the generation of more people. In other words,  it is American womens job to feed the war machine. Today, American   women are having fewer children or none at all. Unlike the U.S., when  other comparable countries birth rates drop governments panic and   act. They offer things like underwriting childbearing and  childrearing, paid maternal or parental leave, free or subsidized   childcare, universal health care, cash payments to parents, free  schooling through college, and subsidies for housing. In the U.S.,   the labor of bearing and rearing children is on the backs of  families. There are others that are interested in womens labor   production besides the military. A higher birth rate serves an  economic goal: a continually expanding workforce raised with a   minimum of public spending and a maximum of womens unpaid work.  Brown contends that as long as we think of the battle over abortion   and birth control as primarily a cultural conflict in which the two  sides simply hold different world views, it is not clear why   corporate owners and establishment planners would have much interest  in it one way or another. But if we look at the battle as a fight   over the production of humanshow many, how fast, and at what  costthen it seems likely that employers, as a class, would have an   intense interest. Whatever you call the power elites, they continue  to have a lot of power, prestige, money, and control, and continue   to want more. Brown cites the reason they spend so much money on  think tanks and foundations is that they have to figure out how to   get around peoples natural demands for liberty, equality, and a fair  share of the good things in life. Her book is consciousness-raising,   thought-provoking and revolutionary. She brings transparency,  anathema to the ruling elites. Brown believes that when women   understand the true value of womens work and direct their anger to  those who are responsible for womens poor conditions, they will   open the opportunity for fundamental changes. Eleven chapters are:  international comparisons; small government, big families, is it a   birth strike? Women testify; Comstockery to the baby boom; population  panic to the baby bust; longevity: crisis or blessing? Immigration:   instant adults: reproduction and race; cheap labor; cannon fodder;   controlling the means of reproduction.  Annotation 2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48816273981675,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":36.53,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781629636382-1.jpg?v=1781694487","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781629636382","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}