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Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present
Contributor(s): Pittenger, Mark (Author)
ISBN: 0814767419     ISBN-13: 9780814767412
Publisher: New York University Press
OUR PRICE:   $30.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - General
- Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness
Dewey: 305.509
LCCN: 2012008071
Series: Culture, Labor, History
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.08" W x 8.9" (0.89 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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Publisher Description:

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.

Contributor Bio(s): Pittenger, Mark: - "Mark Pittenger is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870 - 1920."