Class Struggle on the Home Front

Home/Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation in the modern household.

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GRAHAM CASSANO is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oakland University, USA. He studies social inequality, symbolic exploitation, and the representation of political economy in the mass media. His essays have appeared in a number of interdisciplinary critical journals, including Critical Sociology, Rethinking Marxism, The Journal of Economic Issues, and Left History.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Method(s), Narrative, and Scientific 'Truth'; G.Cassano PART I: THE OVERDETERMINATION OF HOUSEHOLD CLASS STRUGGLES For Every Knight in Shining Armor, there's a Castle Waiting to be Cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of the Household; H.Fraad, S.Resnick & R.Wolff Connecting Sex to Class; S.Resnick & R.Wolff The Class Analysis of Households Extended: Children, Fathers and Family Budgets; S.Resnick & R.Wolff Starving and Hungry: Anorexia Nervosa and the Female Body Politic; H.Fraad Toiling in the Field of Emotion; H.Fraad PART II: ILLUSTRATIONS, REVISIONS AND EXTENSIONS Contested Constructions of the Migrant 'Home': Gender, Class and Belonging in the Anatolian-German Community; E.Erdem Economic Effects of Remittances on Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Household; M.Safri A Class Analysis of Single-Occupied Households; S.Gabriel The Class-Gender Nexus in the American Economy and in Attempts to 'Rebuild the Labor Movement'; M.Hillard & R. McIntyre 'Hunkies,' 'Gasbags' and 'Reds': The Construction and Deconstruction of Labor's Hegemonic Masculinities in Black Fury (1935) and Riff Raff (1936); G.Cassano Afterword; A.R.Hochschild Appendix: Original Introduction to Bringing It All Back Home: Class, Gender& Power in the Modern Household; G.Spivak Contributors Bibliography Notes