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New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era

Jennifer Fronc

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Description:To combat behavior they viewed as sexually promiscuous, politically undesirable, or downright criminal, social activists in Progressive-era New York employed private investigators to uncover the roots of societyOCOs problems." New York Undercover" follows these investigatorsOCooften journalists or social workers with no training in surveillanceOCoon their information-gathering visits to gambling parlors, brothels, and meetings of criminal gangs and radical political organizations.Drawing on the hundreds of detailed reports that resulted from these missions, Jennifer Fronc reconstructs the process by which organizations like the National Civic Federation and the Committee of Fourteen generated the knowledge they needed to change urban conditions. This information, Fronc demonstrates, eventually empowered government regulators in the Progressive era and beyond, strengthening a federal state that grew increasingly repressive in the interest of pursuing a national security agenda. Revealing the central role of undercover investigation in both social change and the constitution of political authority, "New York Undercover" narrates previously untold chapters in the history of vice and the emergence of the modern surveillance state.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era. To get started finding New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 251

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Not Avail

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226266117

Description: To combat behavior they viewed as sexually promiscuous, politically undesirable, or downright criminal, social activists in Progressive-era New York employed private investigators to uncover the roots of societyOCOs problems." New York Undercover" follows these investigatorsOCooften journalists or social workers with no training in surveillanceOCoon their information-gathering visits to gambling parlors, brothels, and meetings of criminal gangs and radical political organizations.Drawing on the hundreds of detailed reports that resulted from these missions, Jennifer Fronc reconstructs the process by which organizations like the National Civic Federation and the Committee of Fourteen generated the knowledge they needed to change urban conditions. This information, Fronc demonstrates, eventually empowered government regulators in the Progressive era and beyond, strengthening a federal state that grew increasingly repressive in the interest of pursuing a national security agenda. Revealing the central role of undercover investigation in both social change and the constitution of political authority, "New York Undercover" narrates previously untold chapters in the history of vice and the emergence of the modern surveillance state.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era. To get started finding New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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