Class Struggle on the Home Front

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction: Method(s), Narrative, and Scientific “Truth”

   1. Introduction: Method(s), Narrative, and Scientific “Truth”

      • Graham Cassano

      Pages 1-15

3. The Overdetermination of Household Class Struggles

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. For Every Knight in Shining Armor, There’s a Castle Waiting to be Cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of the Household

      • Harriet Fraad, Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff

      Pages 19-70

   3. Connecting Sex to Class

      • Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff

      Pages 71-85

   4. The Class Analysis of Households Extended: Children, Fathers, and Family Budgets

      • Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff

      Pages 86-115

   5. Starving and Hungry: Anorexia Nervosa and the Female Body Politic

      • Harriet Fraad

      Pages 116-136

   6. Toiling in the Field of Emotion

      • Harriet Fraad

      Pages 137-151

4. Illustrations, Revisions, and Extensions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Contested Constructions of the Migrant “Home”: Gender, Class and Belonging in the Anatolian-German Community

      • Esra Erdem

      Pages 155-175

   3. Economic Effects of Remittances on Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Households

      • Maliha Safri

      Pages 176-196

   4. A Class Analysis of Single-Occupied Households

      • Satyananda J. Gabriel

      Pages 197-217

   5. The Class-Gender Nexus in the American Economy and in Attempts to “Rebuild the Labor Movement”

      • Michael Hillard, Richard McIntyre

      Pages 218-238

   6. “Hunkies,” “Gasbags,” and “Reds”: The Construction and Deconstruction of Labor’s Hegemonic Masculinities in Black Fury (1935) and Riff Raff (1936)

      • Graham Cassano

      Pages 239-263

5. Back Matter

   Pages 264-314

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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.

• conflict
• economic theory
• economy
• foundation
• gender
• Marx

• Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Oakland University, USA

  Graham Cassano

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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