03652nam 2200745Ia 450 991082588550332120250322110040.09780814724293081472429910.18574/9780814724293(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(ODN)ODN0001484642(EXLCZ)99267000000023786020120301d2012 uy 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrClass unknown undercover investigations of American work and poverty from the progressive era to the present /Mark Pittenger1st ed.New York New York University Pressc2012New York, NY :New York University Press,[2012]©20121 online resource (288 p.)Culture, labor, history seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8147-6740-0 0-8147-6741-9 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.Investigative reportingUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPovertyUnited StatesHistory20th centurySocial classes in mass mediaSocial classesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWorking classUnited StatesHistory20th centuryInvestigative reportingHistoryPovertyHistorySocial classes in mass media.Social classesHistoryWorking classHistory305.50973Pittenger Mark1663249MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825885503321Class Unknown4020416UNINA