How the Other Half Lives

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis, Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer (1849-1914)


This ebook presents «How the Other Half Lives», from Jacob Riis. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Preface

- Introduction

- Genesis Of The Tenements

- The Awakening

- The Mixed Crowd

- The Down Town Back-alleys

- The Italian In New York

- The Bend

- A Raid On The Stale-beer Dives

- The Cheap Lodging-houses

- Chinatown

- Jewtown

- The Sweaters Of Jewtown

- The Bohemians-tenement-house Cigarmaking

- The Color Line In New York

- The Common Herd

- The Problem Of The Children

- Waifs Of The City's Slums

- The Street Arab

- The Reign Of Rum

- The Harvest Of Tares

- The Working Girls Of New York

- Pauperism In The Tenements

- The Wrecks And The Waste

- The Man With The Knife

- What Has Been Done

- How The Case Stands

- Appendix