For business and pleasure : red-light districts and the regulation of vice in the United States, 1890-1933 / Mara L. Keire.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in industry and society.
Main Author: Keire, Mara L. (Mara Laura), 1967-
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2010], ©2010.
Series:Studies in industry and society.
Subjects:
Red-light districts > United States > History > 20th century.
Prostitution > United States > History > 20th century.
Vice control > United States > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: "It's a wonderful life": red-light districts and anti-vice reform
  • Segregating vice, 1890-1909
  • The sporting world
  • Race, riots, and red-light districts, 1906-1910
  • The vice trust: a reinterpretation of the white slavery scare, 1907-1917
  • The war on vice
  • The syndicate: prohibition and the rise of organized crime
  • Conclusion: progressivism, prohibition, and policy options.