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

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 unde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pittenger, Mark (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press c2012.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Culture, labor, history.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817330306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Writing Class in a World of Difference
  • 2. Vagabondage and Efficiency
  • 3. Finding Facts
  • 4. War and Peace, Class and Culture
  • 5. Crossing New Lines
  • 6. Finding the Line in Postmodern America, 1960‒2010
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author