Class unknown undercover investigations of American work and poverty from the progressive era to the present /

Class unknown [electronic resource] : undercover investigations of American work and poverty from the progressive era to the present / Mark Pittenger.

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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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Main Author: Pittenger, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
Series:Culture, labor, history.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Social classes in mass media.
Investigative reporting > United States > History > 20th century.
Social classes > United States > History > 20th century.
Working class > United States > History > 20th century.
Poverty > United States > History > 20th century.
Investigative reporting.
Poverty.
Social classes.
Working class.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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