2026-10-04 16:17 UTC
so still in 1973 the aeronautics and silicon asshats were looking for cheap laborers with sewing and fiber arts skills to work in their plants; AND THEY STILL WERE TREATING THEIR WORK AS IF IT WERE LOW-SKILLED, REPLACEABLE, INCONSEQUENTIAL.
because, imagine getting someone like mami, who was so traumatised by her years as a sweatshop worker, that getting paid $3 and hour was considered a godsend?
my mother was never told that what she did at Western Digital was #engineering work…
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social 2026-10-04 16:21
my mother was just another sweatshop garment worker with high computational and visualization skills that could look at a diagram once and go to town soldering little bits of metal and silicone covered bobs like it was nobody's business. but because the capitalists saw her labor as just an extention of Delancey Street sweatshops, her skills were devalued. and after all, she had never gone to college. they couldn’t possibly call her an engineer without the academia gatekeeping… 🧵…