{"product_id":"class-unknown-mark-pittenger-9780814767405","title":"Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince 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\u003cbr\u003eintellectuals 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.\u003cbr\u003eWhile contributing to our understanding of the history of American social\u003cbr\u003ethought, Class Unknown offers a new perspective on contemporary debates over how we understand\u003cbr\u003eand represent our own society and its class divisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Pittenger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814767400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814767405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2013","brand":"Mark Pittenger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425081639167,"sku":"9780814767405","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_013a23af-53fd-463c-8ec6-0f3b6898267f.jpg?v=1761536882","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/class-unknown-mark-pittenger-9780814767405","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}