 | Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present Subjects: Social classes in mass media; 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; 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 Pittenger Mark : Mark Pittenger is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870 - 1920. |
