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Next to Godliness:

Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City
  • ISBN-13: 9780252077807
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Daniel Burnstein
  • Price: AUD $58.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/2010
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History [HB]
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To many Progressive Era reformers, the extent of street cleanliness was considered an important gauge for determining the conditions necessary for impoverished immigrants to attain a state of ''decency''oa level of individual morality and well-being that would ensure a healthy and orderly city. This study examines prominent street sanitation issues in Progressive Era New York Cityofrom garbage strikes to ''juvenile cleaning leagues''oto 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. Daniel Eli Burnstein is an associate professor of history at Seattle University.
''In this little book brimming with big ideas, the author seeks to draw lessons for our times by indicating ... the old Progressives' linkage of moral and family values to communitarian ends.'' Historian ''The book raises good questions ... about the challenges contemporary historians continue to face in making sense of the dual nature of reformers and reform movements.'' H-SHGAPE ''Burnstein's interpretation of reform activities ... rehabilitates the reputation of the Progressives and inspires readers seeking to reshape political debates over social issues.'' Journal of Social History
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