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

(Part of the Culture, Labor, History Series Series)

by Mark Pittenger

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814767419

ISBN13:9780814767412

Release Date:August 2012

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"

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Class History Social Science Social Sciences

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

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