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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.

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

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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... Read more

    Publisher: New York University Press
    Publication Date: 13/08/2012
    ISBN13: 9780814767412, 978-0814767412
    ISBN10: 0814767419

    Number of Pages: 288

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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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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