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Class unknown : undercover investigations of American work and poverty from the progressive era to the present / Mark Pittenger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pittenger, Mark.
- Series:
- Culture, labor, history.
- Culture, labor, history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Investigative reporting--United States--History--20th century.
- Investigative reporting.
- Poverty--United States--History--20th century.
- Poverty.
- Social classes in mass media.
- Social classes--United States--History--20th century.
- Social classes.
- Working class--United States--History--20th century.
- Working class.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2012.
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Writing Class in a World of Difference
- 2. Vagabondage and Efficiency
- 3. Finding Facts
- 4. War and Peace, Class and Culture
- 5. Crossing New Lines
- 6. Finding the Line in Postmodern America, 1960‒2010
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780814724293
- 0814724299
- OCLC:
- 811491987
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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