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Title: CLASS UNKNOWN
UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIONS OF AMERICAN WORK AND POVERTY FROM THE PROGRESSIVE ERA TO THE PRESENT
By: Mark Pittenger
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0814767419
ISBN 13: 9780814767412
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Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 13 August, 2012
Series: Culture, Labor, History
Pages: 288
Description: Offers a new perspective on contemporary debates over how we understand and represent our own society and its class divisions
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: US
Imprint: New York University Press
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