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How the Other Half Lives

by Jacob Riis

First published
1890
Pages
236
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  1. 00 - Preface

    1:50

  2. 01 - Genesis of the Tenement

    16:13

  3. 02 - The Awakening

    10:02

  4. 03 - The Mixed Crowd

    15:09

  5. 04 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 1

    14:24

  6. 05 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 2

    17:14

  7. 06 - The Italian in New York

    11:06

  8. 07 - The Bend

    25:46

  9. 08 - A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives

    15:16

  10. 09 - The Cheap Lodging-Houses

    19:12

  11. 10 - Chinatown

    22:21

  12. 11 - Jewtown

    25:37

  13. 12 - The Sweaters of Jewtown

    29:55

  14. 13 - The Bohemians - Tenement House Cigarmaking

    21:28

  15. 14 - The Color Line in New York

    19:02

  16. 15 - The Common Herd Part 1

    18:50

  17. 16 - The Common Herd Part 2

    14:34

  18. 17 - The Problem of the Children

    14:17

  19. 18 - Waifs of the City's Slums

    15:01

  20. 19 - The Street Arab

    22:20

  21. 20 - The Reign of Rum

    10:24

  22. 21 - The Harvest of Tares

    30:57

  23. 22 - The Working Girls of New York

    16:38

  24. 23 - Pauperism in the Tenements

    26:18

  25. 24 - The Wrecks and the Waste

    16:40

  26. 25 - The Man with the Knife

    7:27

  27. 26 - What Has Been Done

    25:47

  28. 27 - How the Case Stands

    26:35

  29. 28 - Appendix

    19:47

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Jacob Riis spent years as a police reporter walking the worst blocks of Lower Manhattan, and this 1890 study turns what he saw into an argument the comfortable classes could not ignore. He describes the packed tenements of the Lower East Side ward by ward, tracing how slumlords, sweatshops, and plain indifference crowded families into airless rooms where disease and child labor were routine. The early flash photographs he took, reproduced throughout, gave middle-class readers their first real look inside these homes. The book helped launch American housing reform and shaped the Progressive movement, catching the attention of a young Theodore Roosevelt. This free PDF and EPUB edition preserves one of the founding works of documentary journalism.

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Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was a Danish-American journalist, photographer, and social reformer who emigrated to New York in 1870 and knew poverty firsthand. Working as a police reporter, he used the new technology of flash photography to expose slum conditions and became a driving force of Progressive Era reform.

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First published
1890
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
236
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Phil Chenevert, Lee Ann Howlett, Guero and others