The Project Gutenberg e-Book of The Battle with the Slum; Author: Jacob A. Riis
by Jacob A. Riis
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About this eBook
- Author
- Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914
- Title
- The Battle with the Slum
- Credits
- Produced by David Edwards, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
- 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.
- 28228
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28228
- Release Date
- March 1, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM — THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM
- 2.JACOB A. RIIS
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM — WHAT THE FIGHT IS ABOUT — CHAPTER I BATTLING AGAINST HEAVY ODDS — CHAPTER II THE OUTWORKS OF THE SLUM TAKEN — CHAPTER III THE DEVIL'S MONEY — CHAPTER IV THE BLIGHT OF THE DOUBLE-DECKER — CHAPTER V "DRUV INTO DECENCY" — CHAPTER VI THE MILLS HOUSES — CHAPTER VII PIETRO AND THE JEW — CHAPTER VIII ON WHOM SHALL WE SHUT THE DOOR? — CHAPTER IX THE GENESIS OF THE GANG — CHAPTER X JIM — CHAPTER XI LETTING IN THE LIGHT — CHAPTER XII THE PASSING OF CAT ALLEY — CHAPTER XIII JUSTICE TO THE BOY — CHAPTER XIV THE BAND BEGINS TO PLAY — CHAPTER XV "NEIGHBOR" THE PASSWORD — CHAPTER XVI REFORM BY HUMANE TOUCH — CHAPTER XVII THE UNNECESSARY STORY OF MRS. BEN WAH AND HER PARROT — INDEX
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