Commercialized Prostitution in New York City

"Commercialized Prostitution in New York City" by George J. Kneeland is a study that examines the state of prostitution in New York City in 1912, showing the different places it happened, how the business ran, and the social and economic reasons behind it. The book starts by introducing the Bureau of Social Hygiene, which started the study because of investigations into the white slave trade in 1910. John D. Rockefeller Jr. wrote the introduction, explaining that the Bureau wanted to make a group that could permanently deal with social problems related to vice. Kneeland explains how he did his research, including going to many parlor houses which he deeply explains, and carefully describes the locations of prostitution, their management, and the social and economic factors involved, setting a serious tone for the examination of commercialized vice.