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Class Unknown
Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present
Taschenbuch von Mark Pittenger
Sprache: Englisch

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How well-meaning intellectuals helped develop our understanding of the American underclass

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.

How well-meaning intellectuals helped develop our understanding of the American underclass

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.

Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780814767412
ISBN-10: 0814767419
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pittenger, Mark
Hersteller: New York University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 226 x 154 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Pittenger
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2012
Gewicht: 0,404 kg
Artikel-ID: 106739946
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780814767412
ISBN-10: 0814767419
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pittenger, Mark
Hersteller: New York University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 226 x 154 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Pittenger
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2012
Gewicht: 0,404 kg
Artikel-ID: 106739946
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