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 authenti...
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New York :
New York University Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I.A world of difference: constructing the underclass in progressive America, 1890-1920. Writing class in a world of difference
- II. Between the wars, 1920-1941. Vagabondage and efficiency: the 1920s
- Finding facts: the Great Depression, from the bottom up
- III. The declining significance of class, 1941-1961. War and peace, class and culture
- Crossing new lines: from Gentleman's agreement to Black like me
- IV. Conclusion. Finding the line in postmodern America, 1960-2010.