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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press
c2012.
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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