Class struggle on the home front : work, conflict, and exploitation in the household

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    • Cassano, Graham

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Class struggle on the home front : work, conflict, and exploitation in the household

edited by Graham Cassano

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-304) and index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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

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