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Reading Class Struggle by Losurdo gives you a good framework for doing class analysis. Class Struggle is the motor of history, and, as mentioned in Fanon, our "basic" understanding of Class must be stretched to accommodate some historical events and outcomes. Losurdo uses the example of Engels referring to women's oppression as "the first class oppression", to show this stretching at play even in M&E's work. Class can cover coherent social groups and formations that end up in shared economic circumstances and positions of social recognition (like women not having the vote historically, denial of access to property for colonised and racialised groups etc.).