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

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

Introduction : method(s), narrative, and scientific "truth" / Graham Cassano -- For every knight in shining armour, there's a castle waiting to be cleaned : a Marxist-feminist analysis of the household / Harriet Fraad, Stephen Resnick, and Richard Wolff -- Connecting sex to class / Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff -- The class analysis of households extended : children, fathers, and family budgets / Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff -- Starving and hungry : anorexia nervosa and the female body politic / Harriet Fraad -- Toiling in the field of emotion / Harriet Fraad -- Contested constructions of the migrant "home" : gender, class and belonging in the Anatolian-German community / Esra Erdem -- Economic effects of remittances on immigrant and non-immigrant households / Maliha Safri -- A class analysis of single-occupied households / Satyananda J. Gabriel -- The class-gender nexus in the American economy and in attempts to "rebuild the labor movement" / Michael Hillard and Richard McIntyre -- "Hunkies," "gasbags," and "reds" : the construction and deconstruction of labor's hegemonic masculinities in Black fury (1935) and Riff raff (1936) / Graham Cassano.

"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"--Provided by publisher.