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

• Tác giả: Mark Pittenger
• ISBN-13: 978-0814724293
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (288 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 462020
• Chủ đề: 1. Investigative reporting--History--20th century--United States; 2. Poverty--History--20th century--United States; 3. Social classes--History--20th century--United States; 4. Social classes in mass media; 5. Working class--History--20th century--United States; 6. Classes sociales--Histoire--20e siecle--États-Unis; 7. Classes sociales dans les medias; 8. Journalisme d'enquête--Histoire--20e siecle--États-Unis; 9. Pauvrete--Histoire--20e siecle--États-Unis; 10. Travailleurs--Histoire--20e siecle--États-Unis; 11. HISTORY--General; 12. Investigative reporting; 13. Poverty; 15. Social classes; 16. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Social Classes; 17. Working class

Tóm tắt

"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"--Provided by publisher.