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How the Other Half Lives de Jacob A. Riis

How the Other Half Lives

Autor Jacob A. Riis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2004
"How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure. Riis, who as an immigrant himself lived in these tenements on the lower east side of Manhattan, exposed the horrible conditions while working as a reporter for the New York Tribune. This book when first published in 1890 shed a much-needed light on the conditions of the poor. Presented here is a reproduction of that original 1890 edition with the numerous illustrations included in that volume.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781420925036
ISBN-10: 1420925032
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Digireads.com
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Jacob August Riis (1849 - 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller. Additionally, as one of the most famous proponents of the newly practicable casual photography, he is considered one of the fathers of photography due to his very early adoption of flash in photography. While living in New York, Riis experienced poverty and became a police reporter writing about the quality of life in the slums. He attempted to alleviate the bad living conditions of poor people by exposing their living conditions to the middle and upper classes.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations Introduction by Luc Sante Suggestions for Further Reading A Note on the Text How the Other Half Lives Preface Introduction
1 Genesis of the Tenement 2 The Awakening 3 The Mixed Crowd 4 The Down Town Back-alleys 5 The Italian in New York 6 The Bend 7 A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives 8 The Cheap Lodging-houses 9 Chinatown 10 Jewtown 11 The Sweaters of Jewtown 12 The Bohemians-Tenement-house Cigarmaking 13 The Color Line in New York 14 The Common Herd 15 The Problem of the Children 16 Waifs of the City's Slums 17 The Street Arab 18 The Reign of Rum 19 The Harvest of Tares 20 The Working Girls of New York 21 Pauperism in the Tenements 22 The Wrecks and the Waste 23 The Man with the Knife 24 What Has Been Done 25 How the Case Stands
Appendix Explanatory Notes

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A classic text of sociology and social critism. First published in 1890, this is the author's study of the slums of New York, where Italians, Jews, "Bohemians", Blacks and Chinese struggled against the effects of poverty, alcohol and lack of education. The author's use of photographs to put faces to his stories is recognized as a landmark in photojournalism and as a result of his book, many reforms did take place to assist New York's poor.

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In How The Other Half Lives New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. In his book Riis gave a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor.