How the Other Half Lives

About this eBook

Author

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

Title

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

Credits

Produced by KD Weeks, David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York

Category

Text

eBook-No.

45502

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45502

Release Date

April 26, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Note — HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. GENESIS OF THE TENEMENT.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. THE AWAKENING.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. THE MIXED CROWD.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. THE DOWN TOWN BACK-ALLEYS.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. THE ITALIAN IN NEW YORK.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. THE BEND.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. A RAID ON THE STALE-BEER DIVES.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. THE CHEAP LODGING-HOUSES.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. CHINATOWN.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. JEWTOWN.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. THE SWEATERS OF JEWTOWN.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. THE BOHEMIANS—TENEMENT-HOUSE CIGARMAKING.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. THE COLOR LINE IN NEW YORK.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. THE COMMON HERD.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. THE PROBLEM OF THE CHILDREN.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. WAIFS OF THE CITY’S SLUMS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. THE STREET ARAB.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. THE REIGN OF RUM.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. THE HARVEST OF TARES.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. THE WORKING GIRLS OF NEW YORK.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. PAUPERISM IN THE TENEMENTS.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. THE WRECKS AND THE WASTE.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. THE MAN WITH THE KNIFE.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. HOW THE CASE STANDS.
31. 31.APPENDIX. STATISTICS BEARING ON THE TENEMENT PROBLEM.
32. 32.Footnotes
33. 33.Transcriber’s Note

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