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Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.
-Barbara Ehrenreich
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Labor Is Like Motherhood To Most Of

Barbara Ehrenreich
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.
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What about precarious labor? it's actually not the most efficient form of labor at all. they were much more efficient when they had loyalty to their workers and people were allowed to be creative and contribute - you know that what precarious labor does is that it's the best weapon ever made to depoliticize labor. they're always putting the political in front of the economic.
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