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Class unknown : undercover investigations of American work and poverty from the progressive era to the present / Mark Pittenger

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Culture, labor, history seriesPublisher: New York : New York University Press, ©2012Description: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 277 pages)ISBN:
  • 9780814724293
  • 9780814724309
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780814767405. | 9780814767412. | Erscheint auch als: Class unknown. Druck-Ausgabe New York : New York University Press, ©2012DDC classification:
  • 305.50973 23/eng/20240916
LOC classification:
  • HN90.S6
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Summary: "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"--Provided by publisherPPN: PPN: 1916212808Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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