Next to Godliness : Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City Paperback / softback
by Daniel Burnstein
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To many Progressive Era reformers, the extent of street cleanliness was an important gauge for determining whether a city was providing the conditions necessary for impoverished immigrants to attain a state of "decency"--a level of individual well-being and morality that would help ensure a healthy and orderly city.
Daniel Eli Burnstein's study examines prominent street sanitation issues in Progressive Era New York City--ranging from garbage strikes to "juvenile cleaning leagues"--to explore how middle-class reformers amassed a cross-class and cross-ethnic base of support for social reform measures to a degree greater than in practically any other period of prosperity in U.S. history. The struggle for enhanced civic sanitation serves as a window for viewing Progressive Era social reformers' attitudes, particularly their emphasis on mutual obligations between the haves and have-nots, and their recognition of the role of negative social and physical conditions in influencing individual behaviors.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, 15 black & white photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2010
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- ISBN:9780252077807
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, 15 black & white photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2010
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- ISBN:9780252077807