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

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

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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 unde...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Pittenger, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Culture, Labor, History ; 4
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
  • 1. Writing Class in a World of Difference
  • PART II. BETWEEN THE WARS, 1920–1941
  • 2. Vagabondage and Efficiency
  • 3. Finding Facts
  • PART III. THE DECLINING SIGNIFICANCE OF CLASS, 1941–1961
  • 4. War and Peace, Class and Culture
  • 5. Crossing New Lines
  • PART IV. CONCLUSION
  • 6. Finding the Line in Postmodern America, 1960‒2010
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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