Class unknown : undercover investigations of American work and poverty from the progressive era to the present / Mark Pittenger
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
- 1900-1999
- Social classes in mass media
- Investigative reporting -- United States -- 20th century
- Social classes -- United States -- 20th century
- Working class -- United States -- 20th century
- Poverty -- United States -- 20th century
- Classes sociales dans les médias
- Journalisme d'enquête - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
- Classes sociales - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
- Travailleurs - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
- Pauvreté - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
- SOCIAL SCIENCE - Social Classes
- HISTORY - General
- History
- United States
- 305.50973 23/eng/20240916
- 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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