For Business and Pleasure : Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933 /
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Studies in industry and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: It's a wonderful life: red-light districts and anti-vice reform
- Segregating vice, 1890-1909
- The sporting world, 1890-1917
- Race, riots, and red-light districts, 1906-1910
- The vice trust: a reinterpretation of the white slavery scare, 1907-1917
- The war on vice, 1910-1919
- The syndicate: prohibition and the rise of organized crime, 1919-1933
- Conclusion: progressivism, prohibition, and policy options.