Mark Pittenger

Class Unknown (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Since the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to "e;pass"e; 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 "e;other"e; 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: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780814724293
• Artikelnr.: 52982585

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.