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

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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 authenti...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Pittenger, Mark
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Working class.
Social classes.
Poverty.
Social classes in mass media.
Investigative reporting.
HISTORY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Classes.
Pauvrete > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Classes sociales > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Journalisme d'enquête > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Classes sociales dans les medias.
Poverty > United States > History > 20th century.
Working class > United States > History > 20th century.
Social classes > United States > History > 20th century.
Investigative reporting > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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