How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Author(s): Jacob A. Riis
Genre(s): *non-fiction, History, Political Science
Narrators: Guero, Maggie Russell, Lee Ann Howlett, MaryAnn, Phil Chenevert, Matthew Reece, Parrot17, Mevans, Ashleighjane, Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Number of Chapters: 29
Length: 8 hours and 50 minutes
Language: English
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)