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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Pittenger |
ISBN: | 9780814724293 0814724299 |
OCLC Number: | 811491987 |
Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
Contents: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I.A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE: CONSTRUCTING THE UNDERCLASS IN PROGRESSIVE AMERICA, 1890-1920; 1. Writing Class in a World of Difference; PART II. BETWEEN THE WARS, 1920-1941; 2. Vagabondage and Efficiency: The 1920s; 3. Finding Facts: The Great Depression, from the Bottom Up; PART III. THE DECLINING SIGNIFICANCE OF CLASS, 1941-1961; 4. War and Peace, Class and Culture; 5. Crossing New Lines: From Gentleman's Agreement to Black Like Me; PART IV. CONCLUSION; 6. Finding the Line in Postmodern America, 1960-2010; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H. IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author. |
Series Title: | Culture, labor, history. |
Abstract:
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.
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