Today’s discussion focuses on class and class struggles in the two places where we live most of our lives: in the larger wage economy and inside the family economy. By class we mean the particular ways in which the work process (production) is organized wherever it occurs. Class issues concern who does the work, whether workers produce more - a "surplus" - than they themselves get to consume, who gets such surpluses and what they do with them. We explore how production and class organizations of production occur in both the wage economy and the household economy. We then begin to ask and answer questions about what happens to people's lives as a result of participating in two different class structures at work and at home.