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Jacob Riis's illustrated tour of New York's slums had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that changed the face of the city. In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower East Side was a landscape of teeming streets and filthy tenements crowded with immigrants living in dreadful conditions.
How the Other Half Lives brings them to life - the Italians, Jews, Bohemians (Czechs and Slovaks), Blacks, and Chinese - in precise descriptions of their habits and traditions, jobs and wages, rents paid and meals eaten, and explores the effects of crime, poverty, alcohol, and lack of education and opportunity on adults and children alike.
Riis's reliance on specific, hard facts as the tools and weapons of social criticism pioneered the style of crusading journalism that continues today. His use of photographs (reproduced in this edition) to put faces to his stories was a landmark in photojournalism.
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Museum of the City of New York, Photograph collections, Poor, Poverty, Social conditions, Tenement houses, Tenement-houses, Propagation, Woody plants, Cuttings, Poor, new york (state), new york, New york (n.y.), social conditions, SlumsPeople
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How the other half lives: studies among the tenements of New York
1997, Penguin Books
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How the other half lives: studies among the tenements of New York.
1971, Dover
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How the other half lives: studies among the tenements of New York
1957, Hill and Wang
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How the other half lives: studies among the tenements of New York
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxv).
"How the other half lives" was first published by Charles Schribner's Sons, New York. The text of "How the other half lives" used in this Penguin Classics edition was reset from the Dover Publications edition. The Dover edition, first published in 1971, is an unabridged republication of the text of the 1901 edition of the work.
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A photographic collection exposing social conditions and daily life in the slums of late 19th century New York City. The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer and philosopher François Rabelais, who famously wrote in his Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait pas comment l'autre vit").
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