Sentence examples for the dangerous classes from inspiring English sources

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This attitude pervades "Races of the Old World" (1863) and "The Dangerous Classes of New York" (1872), books written by Charles Loring Brace, the society's founder.

"In the time of Haussmann, the Paris bourgeoisie often spoke about 'les classes dangereuses' — the dangerous classes," Jean-Louis Cohen, an architectural historian, told me recently.

He traces the source of that purported bias to "The Races of the Old World" (1863) and "The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work Among Them" (1872), by Charles Loring Brace, the founder of that society.

In Buffalo he realized an even grander ambition, creating a vast network of parks and parkways that he hoped would have "a civilizing effect" on the "dangerous classes" populating the American city.

Although many of the train riders were orphaned or severely neglected by their parents, the Orphan Train Movement has often been criticized for removing children from homes simply because they were children of poor, mostly immigrant, families, considered "the dangerous classes" by turn-of-the-century social reformers.

"By applying these techniques and these devices invented for the dangerous classes to a citizen" he continued, according to the translation, governments "have made the person the ideal suspect, to the point that it's humanity itself that has become the dangerous class".

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This was followed in 1851 by the publication of Reformatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders.

C. C. Hickok, their representative, told The Times that he had no problem with the deserving poor, but feared the hotel would attract "the vicious and dangerous classes as well".

"Love must be the ruling sentiment of all who attempt to influence and guide these children", she wrote in Reformatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes, and for Juvenile Offenders.

Crosby & H. P. Nichols, 1848 Memoir of Joseph Tuckerman, D.D., of Boston (U.S .. London: Christian Tract Society, 1849 Reformatory Schools: For the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders.

Guy Standing, author of The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, Katharine Quarmby (Scapegoat: Why We Are Failing Disabled People) and Stephen Armstrong (The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited) discuss whether we are giving up on the underprivileged.

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