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
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| Titolo: |
Class Unknown : Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present / / Mark Pittenger
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8147-2429-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785540403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Culture, labor, history.