New York undercover
Subtitle: private surveillance in the Progressive Era
By: Jennifer Fronc.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226266091
Subjects: Undercover operations -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Social problems -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Social action -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- History; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: A genealogy of undercover investigation; title: Public raids, undercover investigators, and native informants; title: Gender and undercover investigation; title: Race mixing, investigation, and the enforcement of Jim Crow; title: Children and immigrants in working-class New York; title: Public-private partnerships during World War I.