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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pittenger, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2012.
Colección:Culture, labor, history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780814724293
0814724299