How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York /
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Author / Creator: | Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914. |
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Imprint: | New York : Dover, c1971. |
Description: | xiii, 233 p. : ill. ; 20 x 26 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/187010 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface to the first editions
- Introduction
- Genesis of the tenement
- Awakening
- Mixed crowd
- Down town back-alleys
- Italian in New York
- Bend
- Raid on the stale-beer dives
- Cheap lodging-houses
- Chinatown
- Jewtown
- Sweaters of Jewtown
- Bohemians - tenement-house cigar-making
- Color line in New York
- Common herd
- Problem of the children
- Waifs of the city's slums
- Street Arab
- Reign of rum
- Harvest of tares
- Working girls of New York
- Pauperism in the tenements
- Wrecks and the waste
- Man with the knife
- What has been done
- How the case stands
- Appendix.