How the Other Half Lives

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Author: Jacob A. Riis

ISBN-10: 0140436790

ISBN-13: 9780140436792

Category: American Fiction & Literature Classics

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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 of early American photography. Over 100 photographs.

List of IllustrationsIntroductionSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextHow the Other Half Lives1Preface3Introduction51Genesis of the Tenement92The Awakening173The Mixed Crowd214The Down Town Back-alleys265The Italian in New York416The Bend467A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives588The Cheap Lodging-houses669Chinatown7310Jewtown8211The Sweaters of Jewtown9212The Bohemians - Tenement-house Cigarmaking10313The Color Line in New York11214The Common Herd12015The Problem of the Children13516Waifs of the City's Slums14117The Street Arab14718The Reign of Rum15919The Harvest of Tares16420The Working Girls of New York17621Pauperism in the Tenements18322The Wrecks and the Waste19123The Man with the Knife19624What Has Been Done19925How the Case Stands209Appendix219Explanatory Notes225