Class Unknown - Undercover Investigations of American Work Poverty from Gilded Age

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung A study of undercover investigations of work and poverty in America! in which an award-winning historian 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Pittenger, James Salazar
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.2012
• EAN: 9780814767405
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-6740-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Culture, Labor, History; Culture, Labor, History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous