Hello, this is Dr. Harriet Fraud, bringing you the podcast, Capitalism Hits Home.

A podcast about how the economy and politics and culture and personal life interpenetrate and create one another personal life is usually

left out of the discourse about what's happening but that's a truly wrong

idea and a bad omission today I want to talk about a class revolution. It's the only class

revolution that's happened in the United States for a long time. And it's not only in

the United States, but this is, it's the United States that I'm discussing. And that is that until, I would say, the late 70s,

women worked, the overwhelming majority of women were married and worked not for money in the outer economy,

but in the economy of the household, where they produced cleanliness, cooked food, order, childcare.

They also helped their husband express their emotional needs

because men's permission to do that outside the house

was not allowed in a patriarchal society,

which certainly ours was.

And they also produced social connection for their husbands

because they invited the relatives over, they connected the husbands with the children,

they entertained the husband's friends, And they were given an allotment to do the household chores

and maintain the household.

Sort of like on the medieval manner, the serf worked

the land that belonged to the Lord of the Manor,

and was given, you know, he or she and they did the work

and were allowed to live, but never had the means

to easily change where they lived or for whom.

And really, until very recently,

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