Michael Gold

Short Biography-
http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/4174/Michael-Gold-pseudonym-Itzok-Granich.html

Michael Gold

1. Real Name Itzok Granich
2. Jews Without Money has been translated in more than fourteen countries, including Germany, where the novel was employed against Nazi propaganda.
3.Graduated From Harvard
4.was one of the most important and influential members of the group of left-wing intellectuals associated with such publications as Masses, The Liberator, and the New Masses between 1916 and 1930.
5. Also a playwright and his anthology Proletarian Literature in the United States (1935) is an important source-book for radical writing in the USA in the inter-war years

Like the others i also think that chapter 2 "how babies are made" is significant in how the street kids first learned about work, from the most popular job in their surroundings. And also how we get the perspective of different pimps, the kids and the mother on how they view the girls.
Throughout these early stages of the book i thought soem notable factors were-
How the descriptions of the summer were to the kids in the tenements just like the descriptions of the night in sister carrie, were to the adults. There is a sense of magic and in sister carrie the lights are likened to fairytale where as the kids in Jews, play games out in an unused piece of land which is their fairytale.
Also the early stages in the book where there is a sense of realism through joey Cohen getting run over, and the pervert and the descirptions of the horrible conditions and decay i.e. the buildings, cats and "bums", i think sets up for the book to show the need of working and being successful to get out of these conditions.