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Class Unknown

Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progress
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2013 Notable Title in American Intellectual History from the Society for U.S. Intellectual History 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 working-class people, they unintentionally helped to develop the contemporary concept of a degraded and "other" American underclass. While contributing to our understanding of the history of American social thought, Class Unknown offers a new perspective on contemporary debates over how we understand and represent our own society and its class divisions.
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
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