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100 1  Brown, Jenny,|d1965-|eauthor. 
245 10 Birth strike :|bthe hidden fight over women's work /
       |cJenny Brown. 
264  1 Oakland, CA :|bPM,|c[2019] 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    225 pages :|billustrations ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-209) and 
       index. 
505 00 |gIntroduction --|tInternational comparisons --|tSmall 
       government, big families --|tIs it a birth strike? women 
       testify --|tComstockery to the baby boom --|tPopulation 
       panic to the baby bust --|tLongevity: crisis or blessing? 
       --|tImmigration: "instant adults" --|tReproduction and 
       race --|tCheap labor --|tCannon fodder --|tControlling the
       means of reproduction --|tAppendix: consciousness-raising 
       questions --|gAcknowledgements --|gNotes --|gBibliography 
       --|gIndex --|gAbout the author. 
520    When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more
       children, and Ross Douthat requested "More babies, please,
       " they openly expressed what U.S. policymakers have been 
       discussing for decades with greater discretion. Using 
       technical language like "age structure," "dependency ratio,
       " and "entitlement crisis," establishment think tanks are 
       raising the alarm: if U.S. women don't have more children,
       we'll face an aging workforce, slack consumer demand, and 
       a stagnant economy. Feminists generally believe that a 
       prudish religious bloc is responsible for the fight over 
       reproductive freedom in the U.S., but hidden behind this 
       conventional explanation is a dramatic fight over women's 
       reproductive labor. On one side, elite policymakers want 
       an expanding workforce reared with a minimum of employer 
       spending and a maximum of unpaid women's work. On the 
       other side, women are refusing to produce children at 
       levels desired by economic planners. With little access to
       childcare, family leave, health care, and with 
       insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting
       a spontaneous birth strike. In other countries, panic over
       low birth rates has led governments to underwrite 
       childbearing with generous universal programs, but in the 
       U.S., women have not yet realized the potential of our 
       bargaining position. When we do, it will lead to new 
       strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth 
       control, and for improving the difficult working 
       conditions U.S. parents now face when raising children. 
650  0 Women's rights. 
650  0 Labor|xWomen. 
650  0 Birth control. 
650  0 Reproductive rights. 
994    C0|bGPI