For Business and Pleasure : Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933 /
Keire, Mara L. 1967-
For Business and Pleasure : Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933 / Mara L. Keire. - 1 online resource (248 pages): ill. ; - Studies in industry and society . - Studies in industry and society. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Open Access
9781421427690
Vice control--History--United States--20th century.
Prostitution--History--United States--20th century.
Red-light districts--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
HQ125.U6 / K45 2010
363.40973/09041
For Business and Pleasure : Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933 / Mara L. Keire. - 1 online resource (248 pages): ill. ; - Studies in industry and society . - Studies in industry and society. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Open Access
9781421427690
Vice control--History--United States--20th century.
Prostitution--History--United States--20th century.
Red-light districts--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
HQ125.U6 / K45 2010
363.40973/09041