William Acton: Prostitution Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects Year: 1857
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William Acton: Prostitution Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects
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Abstract
I cannot venture to hope that the sexual passion will in our time cease to operate or diminish very materially. I have no idea that the preventives of prostitution hereafter suggested, will, if adopted at all, operate otherwise than tardily, and after all incompletely. It becomes us, then, to consider what curatives or palliatives are at our disposal. Having already attempted to depict, not extravagantly, the present external aspect of the vice, and the interest of society in its being well ordered, I will now glance at its organization, and the possibility of our regulating it by law, or mitigating its attendant evils.
Contents
- Industrialism and Its After-effects
- Intellectual Responses to Industrial Modernity
- Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations Year: 1776
- Leeds Woolen Workers Petition Year: 1786
- Andrew Ure: The Philosophy of Manufactures Year: 1835
- People’s Charter Year: 1838
- Louis Blanc: The Organization of Labor Year: 1839
- Horace Mann: “The Condition of the Children of Laborers on Public Works” Year: 1840
- Edwin Chadwick: Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population Year: 1842
- Eighth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners Year: 1842
- Treaty of Nanjing Year: 1842
- Rules of a Berlin Factory Year: 1844
- Harriet Farley (Using the Pseudonym “Susan”): Letters from the Lowell Mill Year: 1844
- Josephine L. Baker: “A Second Peep at Factory Life” Year: 1845
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto Year: 1848
- Michael Faraday: Letter to the Editor about the River Thames Year: 1856
- William Acton: Prostitution Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects Year: 1857
- Giuseppe Mazzini: An Essay on the Duties of Man: Addressed to Workingmen Year: 1860
- Frederick Law Olmsted: Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom Year: 1861
- Pacific Railway Act Date: 1862
- Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man Year: 1871
- Louis Pasteur: “The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery” Year: 1878
- Paul Lafargue: “The Socialist Ideal” Year: 1883
- Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives Year: 1890
- Jane Addams: “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” Date: 1892
- Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism 1899
- Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science Date: 1901
- Progressive Party Platform Date: 1912
- Joseph Stalin: “Results of the First Five-year Plan” Date: 1933