Disorder in the Air

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-206
Author(s):  
Vincent DiGirolamo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Newspaper Industry ◽  
White Southerners ◽  
The Social ◽  
Horatio Alger

Newsboys proliferated after the Civil War as the newspaper industry flourished but then reemerged as a social problem during the depression years of 1873 to 1877. Writers and artists such as Horatio Alger and J. G. Brown portrayed them as symbols of the uplifting potential of industrial capitalism, while white southerners turned them into emblems of Republican misrule. The New York press celebrated real Bowery newsboys such as Steve Brodie. But authors of sensational urban guidebooks cast these youths as enfants terribles whose discontents threatened the social order. Swept up in the burgeoning labor movement, newsboys mounted noisy strikes in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Nashville, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, and Baltimore. Catholic and Protestant philanthropists responded by founding homes for newsboys or advocating that they be licensed and supervised. Contrary to their mythic counterparts, real newsboys exposed and challenged the economic inequities of Gilded Age America.

American Medical Research, Past and Present, Studies of the New York Academy of Medicine Committee on Medicine and the Changing Order

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-253
Author(s):  
C. D. MAY
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
York Academy ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
The Social

This monograph is one of a series resulting from studies by the Committee on Medicine and the Changing Order of the New York Academy of Medicine. The objective in this report was to trace the historical development of medical research and to define and describe the role of medical research in the social order particularly as regards support for research from government agencies. The comprehensive grasp of the complexities of medical research which Dr. Shryock reveals commands genuine admiration and respect from anyone engaged in such research. Indeed, few engaged in various aspects of medical research could claim anything like his familiarity with the broad outlines of this field.

News Capital

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurora Wallace
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Old World ◽  
Geographic Concentration ◽  
Newspaper Industry ◽  
Penny Press ◽  
New City ◽  
Urban Institutions ◽  
The City

This chapter examines the first two papers of the penny press of the 1830s, the New York Sun and the New York Herald, through their transition from tiny four-sheet bulletins printed out of cramped rookeries to important urban institutions with increasingly immodest architectural ambitions, giving new city inhabitants signposts on the landscape that recalled both a recognizable old world and reassurances of the new. The city and the newspapers shared a common set of values—industrial capitalism, specialization of labor, geographic concentration, and an intricate and specialized economic structure—that materialized in the form that media architecture began to adopt. The parallel development of the city and the newspaper industry shows their forms coming to mirror each other in the segmentation of neighborhoods and news sections.

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