Mark Pittenger

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Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the PresentHardcover, 13 August 2012

Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present
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Part of Series
Culture, Labor, History
Print Length
288 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
13 Aug 2012
ISBN-10
0814767400
ISBN-13
9780814767405

Description

Since the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to "pass" as steel workers, coal miners, assembly-line laborers, waitresses, hoboes, and other working and poor people in an attempt to gain a fuller and more authentic understanding of the lives of the working class and the poor. In this first, sweeping study of undercover investigations of work and poverty in America, award-winning historian Mark Pittenger examines how
intellectuals were shaped by their experiences with the poor, and how despite their sympathy toward working-class people, they unintentionally helped to develop the contemporary concept of a degraded and "other" American underclass.
While contributing to our understanding of the history of American social
thought, Class Unknown offers a new perspective on contemporary debates over how we understand
and represent our own society and its class divisions.

Product Details

Author:
Mark Pittenger
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
13 August 2012
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm
ISBN-10:
0814767400
ISBN-13:
9780814767405
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
288
Weight:
562.45 gm

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