Value of Surveillance: Private Policing, Bourgeois Reform, and Sexual Commerce in Turn-of-the-Century New York

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dc.contributor.advisorSmith, Pual
dc.creatorGallas, Austin
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-17T19:05:45Z
dc.date.available2023-03-17T19:05:45Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractScholars have long mined the voluminous archive of the Committee of Fourteen (1905–1932) ––a powerful, privately funded law enforcement and anti-prostitution organization backed by influential industrialists and social reformers––to examine various elusive elements of New York City social history, including the emergence of queer subcultures, the extralegal enforcement of Jim Crow by private authorities, and the policing of sex workers, their clients, and "promiscuous" women within and beyond commercial amusement spaces. This dissertation both contributes to and departs from this important body of historical scholarship by providing a Marxian consideration of the Committee of Fourteen’s origins, methods, intellectual contributions, political influence, and published and privately communicated beliefs and/or positions. Exploring the archive with an eclectic mixture of conceptual categories and critical frameworks ready-to-hand, including Marx's work on value theory, Michael Ralph’s “forensics of capital” framework, and Foucauldian theories of biopower and surveillance, this dissertation develops a novel, “ecological” understanding of the Committee of Fourteen as a vital site of capitalist class composition.
dc.format.extent357 pages
dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/13186
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2022 Austin Gallas
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0
dc.subjectCommittee of Fourteen
dc.subjectNew York City
dc.subjectPrivate Policing
dc.subjectProgressive Reform
dc.subjectSex
dc.subjectSurveillance
dc.subject.keywordsAmerican history
dc.subject.keywordsSociology
dc.subject.keywordsSexuality
dc.titleValue of Surveillance: Private Policing, Bourgeois Reform, and Sexual Commerce in Turn-of-the-Century New York
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thesis.degree.disciplineCultural Studies
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D. in Cultural Studies

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