Who will do the menial jobs that nobody wants to do ?

The scientists and social reformers have dealt and are dealing many problems for mankind in this world like labor saving by various machines, improvement in sources of energy from wood to electricity, means of transport from cattle to air journey, means of communications from pigeons and messengers to mobile and internet. But the problem of menial household work like cooking, washing clothes, cleaning utensils and houses was forced upon fair and beautiful section of humanity. They were kept illiterate, married early and dispatched from father’s house to mother in law, who herself of that section and who has also suffered in hands of her mother in law, becomes a harsh task master for that delicate fairy. Certainly inventions like Cooking gas, Washing Machine and Refrigerator have eased domestic work. But no serious human and social thought was given to domestic work. How it can be managed without causing hardship to anybody? The husband and wife both must contribute in household work. Then there must be domestic service centers in each locality through which cleaning, whitewash, paint, pest control will be taken care of and also deposition of service bills, Children’s school fee etc. and laundering of clothes can be got done and prepared loaves and food all can be procured. The people who will work there will work as business and not doing a thankless harassing routine of a house wife’s work. The availability of almost ready to eat, needing only boiling, roasting or frying will ease the work. Thus ultimately husband and wife both will become almost free from all household work. Similarly, 4 to 6 families can run a common mess, the people and their servants working in rotation, others enjoying when free. The most important problem is that we human beings are filth producers and want to remain clean. Whereas very small filth of small animals is dealt by nature by its sunlight, water and air, the huge filth produced each day by each household in a city cannot disappear by itself. It must be actively cleaned and none of us want to clean it. Instead of managing this problem with equity the mankind opted for cunning and inhuman solution to the problem of scavenging. Thus for this very purpose, the cunning people and tribes enslaved other individuals and when they defeated other tribes then forced them to do this cleaning work. Initially, in a tribe or in a village, some people who may be having less IQ or some other shortcoming or some exceptionally gentle in disposition, were perhaps persuaded and engaged to do this cleaning work. Then someone who committed some blunder, someone upon whom some blunder or crime was imposed falsely and who could not defend himself or herself because of less IQ or gentleness was assigned this cleaning work. Then their spouses and children were also convinced to continue this work, all sorts of persuasions, black mails or boycotts must have been employed by clever people, by leaders and by priest and by those who were revered as ‘saints’ and ‘godly’. Thus a set of families were fixed to do so despite their reluctance by so called ‘representative of God’. Thus problem of scavenger work needs urgent solution. Gandhi ji individually did scavenger work and forced Kasturba to do so in South Africa and perhaps here he did sometimes in his ashrams. But so far no social solution to menial household work and to scavenger work has been seriously thought. The civic cleanliness work will be responsibility of civic body who will hire daily the sanitary worker whose wages will be much higher than other type of laborers, these hired worker will wear a dress that will hide their identity and will also give them full protection and with the help of gadgets and automation, they will do the sanitation work. Thus any one in more need of money will join this work force and for it even may go to nearby cities to hide his identity. The families traditionally doing scavenger work will move to respectable jobs. Only individuals in need will join the sanitation work and it will have nothing to do with family and individual’s future career.