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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.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2012 |
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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 |
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 |