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oapen-20.500.12657-894302024-05-30T11:27:12Z Class Unknown Pittenger, Mark History Sociology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology 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. 2024-04-03T10:11:33Z 2024-04-03T10:11:33Z 2012 book ONIX_20240403_9780814724293_148 9780814724293 9780814767405 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89430 eng Culture, Labor, History application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 9780814724293_WEB.pdf 9780814724293_EPUB.epub New York University Press NYU Press 10.18574/nyu/9780814767405.001.0001 10.18574/nyu/9780814767405.001.0001 7d95336a-0494-42b2-ad9c-8456b2e29ddc 9780814724293 9780814767405 NYU Press 4 New York open access
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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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