Class Unknown : Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present / Mark Pittenger.
2012
HN90.S6 P58 2012
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Title
Class Unknown : Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present / Mark Pittenger.
Author
Pittenger, Mark, author.
ISBN
9780814724293
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814767405.001.0001 doi
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HN90.S6 P58 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.50973
Summary
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.
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Culture, Labor, History ; ; 4
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
1. Writing Class in a World of Difference
PART II. BETWEEN THE WARS, 1920-1941
2. Vagabondage and Efficiency
3. Finding Facts
PART III. THE DECLINING SIGNIFICANCE OF CLASS, 1941-1961
4. War and Peace, Class and Culture
5. Crossing New Lines
PART IV. CONCLUSION
6. Finding the Line in Postmodern America, 1960‒2010
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
1. Writing Class in a World of Difference
PART II. BETWEEN THE WARS, 1920-1941
2. Vagabondage and Efficiency
3. Finding Facts
PART III. THE DECLINING SIGNIFICANCE OF CLASS, 1941-1961
4. War and Peace, Class and Culture
5. Crossing New Lines
PART IV. CONCLUSION
6. Finding the Line in Postmodern America, 1960‒2010
Notes
Index
About the Author