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Class Unknown : Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present / / Mark Pittenger



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Autore: Pittenger Mark Visualizza persona
Titolo: Class Unknown : Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present / / Mark Pittenger Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina: 305.50973
Soggetto topico: Poverty - United States - History - 20th century
Working class - United States - History - 20th century
Social classes - United States - History - 20th century
Investigative reporting - United States - History - 20th century
Social classes in mass media
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Class Unknown  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-2429-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785540403321
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Serie: Culture, labor, history.