Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City
By: Daniel Burnstein (author)PaperbackUp to 2 WeeksUsually despatched within 2 weeks
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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.About Author
Daniel Burnstein is an associate professor of history at Seattle University.Product Details
- publication date: 21/07/2010
- ISBN13: 9780252077807
- Format: Paperback
- Number Of Pages: 224
- ID: 9780252077807
- ISBN10: 0252077806
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