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Class Unknown - Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present (Paperback)
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Class Unknown - Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present (Paperback)
Series: Culture, Labor, History
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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 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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