How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York / Jacob A. Riis ; Introd. by Donald N. Bigelow.

An account of slum conditions in New York City that exposes the poverty & degradation of the city's slums around 1900. Riis provides a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live t...

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Main Author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Sagamore Press, 1957.
Series:American century series ; S-12.
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505 0 |a Genesis of the tenement -- Awakening -- Mixed crowd -- Down town back-alleys -- Italian in New York -- Bend -- Raid on the stale-beer dives -- Cheap lodging-houses -- Chinatown -- Jewtown -- Sweaters of Jewtown -- Bohemians: tenement-house cigar-making -- Color line in New York -- Common herd -- Problem of the children -- Waifs of the city's slums -- Street Arab -- Reign of rum -- Harvest of tares -- Working girls of New York -- Pauperism in the tenements -- Wrecks and the waste -- Man with the knife -- What has been done -- How the case stands. 
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