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

• VerfasserIn: Pittenger, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Culture, labor, history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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...

Table of Contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Writing Class in a World of Difference
• 2. Vagabondage and Efficiency
• 3. Finding Facts
• 4. War and Peace, Class and Culture
• 5. Crossing New Lines
• 6. Finding the Line in Postmodern America, 1960‒2010
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author