03571nam 22006975 450 991048097040332120210722012137.00-8147-2429-910.18574/9780814724293(CKB)2670000000237860(EBL)1014784(OCoLC)811491987(SSID)ssj0000736754(PQKBManifestationID)11428042(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000736754(PQKBWorkID)10773661(PQKB)11489736(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323822(MiAaPQ)EBC1014784(OCoLC)810933311(MdBmJHUP)muse19212(DE-B1597)547677(DE-B1597)9780814724293(EXLCZ)99267000000023786020200608h20122012 fg 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrClass Unknown Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present /Mark PittengerNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2012]©20121 online resource (288 p.)Culture, Labor, History ;4Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-6741-9 0-8147-6740-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AuthorSince 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.Culture, labor, history.PovertyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWorking classUnited StatesHistory20th centurySocial classesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryInvestigative reportingUnited StatesHistory20th centurySocial classes in mass mediaElectronic books.PovertyHistoryWorking classHistorySocial classesHistoryInvestigative reportingHistorySocial classes in mass media.305.50973Pittenger Markauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1049241DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910480970403321Class Unknown2478069UNINA