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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

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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)

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00 - Preface (Guero)
01 - Genesis of the Tenement (Maggie Russell)
02 - The Awakening (Lee Ann Howlett)
03 - The Mixed Crowd (Lee Ann Howlett)
04 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 1 (MaryAnn)
05 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 2 (MaryAnn)
06 - The Italian in New York (Phil Chenevert)
07 - The Bend (Phil Chenevert)
08 - A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives (Matthew Reece)
09 - The Cheap Lodging-Houses (Parrot17)
10 - Chinatown (Parrot17)
11 - Jewtown (Phil Chenevert)
12 - The Sweaters of Jewtown (Phil Chenevert)
13 - The Bohemians - Tenement House Cigarmaking (Phil Chenevert)
14 - The Color Line in New York (Phil Chenevert)
15 - The Common Herd Part 1 (Lee Ann Howlett)
16 - The Common Herd Part 2 (Phil Chenevert)
17 - The Problem of the Children (Matthew Reece)
18 - Waifs of the City's Slums (Lee Ann Howlett)
19 - The Street Arab (mevans)
20 - The Reign of Rum (ashleighjane)
21 - The Harvest of Tares (Guero)
22 - The Working Girls of New York (Guero)
23 - Pauperism in the Tenements (Denny Sayers (d. 2015))
24 - The Wrecks and the Waste (Lee Ann Howlett)
25 - The Man with the Knife (ashleighjane)
26 - What Has Been Done (Phil Chenevert)
27 - How the Case Stands (Phil Chenevert)
28 - Appendix (Guero)
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