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

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - *Non-fiction, History, Political Science

Authors: Jacob A. Riis In Year : 1890

Book Language: English

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

00 - Preface
01 - Genesis of the Tenement
02 - The Awakening
03 - The Mixed Crowd
04 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 1
05 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 2
06 - The Italian in New York
07 - The Bend
08 - A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives
09 - The Cheap Lodging-Houses
10 - Chinatown
11 - Jewtown
12 - The Sweaters of Jewtown
13 - The Bohemians - Tenement House Cigarmaking
14 - The Color Line in New York
15 - The Common Herd Part 1
16 - The Common Herd Part 2
17 - The Problem of the Children
18 - Waifs of the City's Slums
19 - The Street Arab
20 - The Reign of Rum
21 - The Harvest of Tares
22 - The Working Girls of New York
23 - Pauperism in the Tenements
24 - The Wrecks and the Waste
25 - The Man with the Knife
26 - What Has Been Done
27 - How the Case Stands
28 - Appendix

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle class. The title of the book is a reference to a phrase of François Rabelais, who wrote in Pantagruel: "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives". (Summary by Wikipedia)