Report of the Public Welfare Commission of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Author : Grand Rapids (Mich.). Public Welfare Commission
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Page : 39 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Wages
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Author : Grand Rapids (Mich.). Public Welfare Commission
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Page : 39 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Wages
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Author : Michigan State Library
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 1908
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Author : Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 1916
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Author : Michigan Historical Commission
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Page : 754 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Michigan
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Author : Michigan Historical Commission
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Page : 766 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Michigan
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Author : Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 1917
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 47,21 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Labor policy
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Author : New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
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Page : 736 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Government publications
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Author : Mara Laura Keire
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0801898773
Mara L. Keire’s history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable pleasure was impossible. Seeking a way to regulate rather than eliminate prostitution, alcohol, drugs, and gambling, urban reformers confined sites of disreputable pleasure to red-light districts in cities throughout the United States. They dismissed the extremes of prohibitory law and instead sought to limit the impact of vice on city life through realistic restrictive measures. Keire’s thoughtful work examines the popular culture that developed within red-light districts, as well as efforts to contain vice in such cities as New Orleans; Hartford, Connecticut; New York City; Macon, Georgia; San Francisco; and El Paso, Texas. Keire describes the people and practices in red-light districts, reformers' efforts to limit their impact on city life, and the successful closure of the districts during World War I. Her study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife.