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Class Unknown

by Mark Pittenger
ebook

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.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Culture, Labor, History

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 13, 2012

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780814724293
      • File size: 2524 KB

    • Open EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780814724293
      • File size: 2538 KB

    • Open PDF ebook

      • ISBN: 9780814724293
      • File size: 2343 KB

  • Accessibility

  • Languages

    • English

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • Open EPUB ebook
  • Open PDF ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English