ISBN:
9780814767405
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9780814724293 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
288 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780814724293
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
Culture, Labor, History Series
DDC:
305.50973
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
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Electronic books
;
History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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...
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