Mark Pittenger

Biographic Data

ID818030
NAMEMark Pittenger
GIVEN NAMESMark
FAMILY NAMEPittenger
SIGNATUREPITTENGER M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Colorado Boulder
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson

    Open AccessMark PittengerARTICLEJournal of American History2022

    Journal Article The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist Get access The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist. By Donna T Haverty-Stacke. (New York: New York University Press, 2020. 291 pp. $50.00.) Mark Pittenger Mark Pittenger University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 109…

  • Disaster Citizenship

    Mark PittengerARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2017

    What happens in the wake of disaster—of a massive explosion, a devastating urban fire? This is not a book about how we make sense of such catastrophes, as Western cultural commentators have tried to do at least since the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. Rather, it is a social and political history that explores popular, bottom-up and official, top-down responses to two Progressive-Era events: the Salem, Massachusetts, fire of 1914, which rendered thous…

  • Considering Capitalism in American Social Thought

    Open AccessMark PittengerARTICLEModern Intellectual History2008References: 4

    Triumphant capitalism seems nowadays to be a fact of nature, requiring no name and admitting, as Margaret Thatcher famously put it, of “no alternative.” Neither American Capitalism nor Transcending Capitalism shrinks from “naming the system,” as perplexed New Leftists once struggled to do when trying to articulate their own alternative. But having named it, neither book takes as its primary task to define or fully describe that economic and socio…

  • Indispensable Outcasts

    Mark PittengerARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2004Cited by: 2

    Book Review| May 01 2004 Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880–1930 Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880–1930 Frank Tobias Higbie Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003 xvi + 255 pp., $44.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper) Mark Pittenger Mark Pittenger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2004) 1 (2): 137–139. https://doi.org/10.1215/15…

  • What's on the worker's mind

    Open AccessMark PittengerARTICLEJournal of the History of the…2003Cited by: 1References: 24

    Posing, living, and laboring as American workers, several 1920s reformist labor investigators sought to develop an alternative to Frederick Taylor's famous characterization of a typical manual laborer as mentally akin to an ox. Through their experiences as workers, they believed that they gained real if limited access to working-class pyschology. Accordingly, they presented views of the worker's mind that significantly loosened the strictures of …

  • The Jungle

    Mark Pittenger, James BarratARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Jack London proclaimed that Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906), an anatomy of American immigrant working-class life set partly in Chicago's wretched and unsanitary packinghouses and their environs, might prove to be the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery. That it did not, according to Sinclair's own often-quoted analysis, stemmed from his inaccurate aim: his literary bombshell struck the public, not in the heart, but “in the stomach ” A nove…

  • Social control and public intellect

    Open AccessMark PittengerARTICLEJournal of the History of the…2001

  • John Gottlieb Morris

    Mark Pittenger, Michael J KurtzARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article John Gottlieb Morris: Man of God, Man of Science. By Michael J. Kurtz. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1997. xii, 201 pp. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-938420-58-5) Get access Mark Pittenger Mark Pittenger University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Page 228, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568483 Published:…

  • Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America 1888-1918

    Mark Pittenger, Francis Robert Shor et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1998

  • A World of Difference

    Open AccessMark PittengerARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1997Cited by: 14References: 16

    A World of Difference: Constructing the "Underclass" in Progressive America Mark Pittenger (bio) He was going forth to eat as the wanderer may eat, and sleep as the homeless sleep. —Stephen Crane, "An Experiment in Misery" Introduction "Why not find out about the waitress?" the shopper mused as she browsed in the fashionable department stores and glanced through the gleaming restaurant windows of Chicago's Loop. On this Saturday morning in 1917, …

  • Evolution and the Sabotaging of Karl Marx in America

    R Laurence Moore, Mark PittengerARTICLEReviews in American History1994

    It has been fifty years since Richard Hofstadter published his seminal book about influence of evolutionary theory upon American social thought.' Hofstadter wrote a good deal about socially conservative implications of what many Victorian evolutionists called the struggle for existence.-For example, Yale sociologist William Graham Sumner used Darwin to sacralize principles of laissez-faire economics. However, Hofstadter also considered appropriat…

  • American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870-1920

    Hamilton Cravens, Mark Pittenger et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article American Socialists and Evolutionary Thought, 1870–1920. By Mark Pittenger. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. x, 310 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-299-13600-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-299-13604-3.) Get access Hamilton Cravens Hamilton Cravens Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 292–293, ht…

  • Steinmetz

    Mark Pittenger, Ronald R KlineARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist. By Ronald R. Kline. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. xii + 401 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-4298-0.) Get access Mark Pittenger Mark Pittenger University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 307–308, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079803 Published: 01 June 1993

  • Scott Nearing

    Mark Pittenger, Mark F Pittenger et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1993

  • The Great Evasion

    Open AccessMark PittengerARTICLEJournal of American Culture1991

  • Evolution, 'Woman's Nature' and American Feminist Socialism, 1900-1915

    Mark PittengerARTICLERadical History Review1986

    Research Article| October 01 1986 Evolution, 'Woman's Nature' and American Feminist Socialism, 1900–1915 Mark Pittenger Mark Pittenger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (36): 47–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1986-36-47 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Mark Pittenger; Evolution, 'Woman's Nature' and American Feminist Socialism,…