How the Other Half Lives
by Riis, JacobFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1971-06-01
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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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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