How the Other Half Lives

by Riis, Jacob

• ISBN13: 9780486220123
• ISBN10: 0486220125
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1971-06-01
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis, more than 100 grim scenes reveal man's struggle to survive.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text
How the Other Half Lives	p. 1
Preface	p. 3
Introduction	p. 5
Genesis of the Tenement	p. 9
The Awakening	p. 17
The Mixed Crowd	p. 21
The Down Town Back-alleys	p. 26
The Italian in New York	p. 41
The Bend	p. 46
A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives	p. 58
The Cheap Lodging-houses	p. 66
Chinatown	p. 73
Jewtown	p. 82
The Sweaters of Jewtown	p. 92
The Bohemians - Tenement-house Cigarmaking	p. 103
The Color Line in New York	p. 112
The Common Herd	p. 120
The Problem of the Children	p. 135
Waifs of the City's Slums	p. 141
The Street Arab	p. 147
The Reign of Rum	p. 159
The Harvest of Tares	p. 164
The Working Girls of New York	p. 176
Pauperism in the Tenements	p. 183
The Wrecks and the Waste	p. 191
The Man with the Knife	p. 196
What Has Been Done	p. 199
How the Case Stands	p. 209
Appendix	p. 219
Explanatory Notes	p. 225
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