Class Struggle on the Homefront Work, Conflict, and Exploitation in the Household

by Cassano, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780230229266
• ISBN10: 0230229263
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Home Frontexamines 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.

Author Biography

GRAHAM CASSANO is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oakland University. 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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
Introduction: Method(s), Narrative, and Scientific "Truth"	p. 1
The Overdetermination of Household Class Struggles
For Every Knight in Shining Armour, There's a Castle Waiting to be Cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of the Household	p. 19
Connecting Sex to Class	p. 71
The Class Analysis of Households Extended: Children, Fathers, and Family Budgets	p. 86
Starving and Hungry: Anorexia Nervosa and the Female Body Politic	p. 116
Toiling in the Field of Emotion	p. 137
Illustrations, Revisions, and Extensions
Contested Constructions of the Migrant "Home": Gender, Class and Belonging in the Anatolian-German Community	p. 155
Economic Effects of Remittances on Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Households	p. 176
A Class Analysis of Single-Occupied Households	p. 197
The Class-Gender Nexus in the American Economy and in Attempts to "Rebuild the Labor Movement"	p. 218
"Hunkies, " "Gasbags, " and "Reds": The Construction and Deconstruction of Labor's Hegemonic Masculinities in Black Fury (1935) Riff Raff (1936)	p. 239
Appendix: Original Introduction to Bringing It All Back Home: Class, Gender &Power in the Modern Household	p. 264
Afterword	p. 272
Bibliography	p. 276
Index	p. 305
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