How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York

Publication Data

• Title How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York
• Author Jacob A. Riis
• Publisher Belknap
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Cambridge, Mass.
• Language English

Contents

Genesis of the tenement
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.

Topics

• Tenement houses :: New York (State) :: New York
• Poor :: New York (State) :: New York

How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis. ISBN 9780674049321. Published by Belknap in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.