Mark Pittenger

Class Unknown (eBook, ePUB)

Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780814724309
• Artikelnr.: 49743191

Autorenporträt

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.