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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 labourers, 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, Unknown Class offers a new perspective on contemporary debates over how we understand and represent our own society and its class divisions.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Class Unknown
• Subtitle: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present
• Author: Mark Pittenger
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780814767405
• ISBN: 0814767400
• ID: 04932236
• Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 562 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. August 2012

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