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

by Mark Pittenger

Book Overview

How well-meaning intellectuals helped develop our understanding of the American underclass

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814767419
• ISBN13: 9780814767412
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"