Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present (2012)
Pittenger, Mark A. (Author)
New York University Press
Physical Details: x + 277 pp.
Language: English
"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.
...MoreReview Fronc, Jennifer (2014) Review of "Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 108-109).
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