Class Struggle on the Home Front: Work, Conflict and Exploitation in the Household

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction: Method(s), Narrative, and Scientific “Truth”....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
For Every Knight in Shining Armor, There’s a Castle Waiting to be Cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of the Household....Pages 19-70
Connecting Sex to Class....Pages 71-85
The Class Analysis of Households Extended: Children, Fathers, and Family Budgets....Pages 86-115
Starving and Hungry: Anorexia Nervosa and the Female Body Politic....Pages 116-136
Toiling in the Field of Emotion....Pages 137-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Contested Constructions of the Migrant “Home”: Gender, Class and Belonging in the Anatolian-German Community....Pages 155-175
Economic Effects of Remittances on Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Households....Pages 176-196
A Class Analysis of Single-Occupied Households....Pages 197-217
The Class-Gender Nexus in the American Economy and in Attempts to “Rebuild the Labor Movement”....Pages 218-238
“Hunkies,” “Gasbags,” and “Reds”: The Construction and Deconstruction of Labor’s Hegemonic Masculinities in Black Fury (1935) and Riff Raff (1936)....Pages 239-263
Back Matter....Pages 264-314