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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York — Jacob A. Riis

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Jacob A. Riis

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 201 pages

How the Other Half Lives is Jacob A. Riis's 1890 collection of essays and photographs documenting tenement life in New York City. Drawing on his reporting and images, it describes crowded housing, poverty, and immigrant neighborhoods, and became influential in housing reform. It is worth listening to as a vivid historical record of urban America and early documentary social criticism.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. Transcriber’s Note
  2. HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
  3. PREFACE.
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  6. INTRODUCTION.
  7. CHAPTER I. GENESIS OF THE TENEMENT.
  8. CHAPTER II. THE AWAKENING.
  9. CHAPTER III. THE MIXED CROWD.
  10. CHAPTER IV. THE DOWN TOWN BACK-ALLEYS.
  11. CHAPTER V. THE ITALIAN IN NEW YORK.
  12. CHAPTER VI. THE BEND.
  13. CHAPTER VII. A RAID ON THE STALE-BEER DIVES.
  14. CHAPTER VIII. THE CHEAP LODGING-HOUSES.
  15. CHAPTER IX. CHINATOWN.
  16. CHAPTER X. JEWTOWN.
  17. CHAPTER XI. THE SWEATERS OF JEWTOWN.
  18. CHAPTER XII. THE BOHEMIANS—TENEMENT-HOUSE CIGARMAKING.
  19. CHAPTER XIII. THE COLOR LINE IN NEW YORK.
  20. CHAPTER XIV. THE COMMON HERD.
  21. CHAPTER XV. THE PROBLEM OF THE CHILDREN.
  22. CHAPTER XVI. WAIFS OF THE CITY’S SLUMS.
  23. CHAPTER XVII. THE STREET ARAB.
  24. CHAPTER XVIII. THE REIGN OF RUM.
  25. CHAPTER XIX. THE HARVEST OF TARES.
  26. CHAPTER XX. THE WORKING GIRLS OF NEW YORK.
  27. CHAPTER XXI. PAUPERISM IN THE TENEMENTS.
  28. CHAPTER XXII. THE WRECKS AND THE WASTE.
  29. CHAPTER XXIII. THE MAN WITH THE KNIFE.
  30. CHAPTER XXIV. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.

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