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How the Other Half Lives
Capítulos (28)
- Preface 0:00
- Epigraph 1:23
- Introduction 2:20
- I: Genesis of the Tenement 10:22
- II: The Awakening 23:00
- III: The Mixed Crowd 32:03
- IV: The Downtown Back-Alleys 45:35
- V: The Italian in New York 1:20:26
- VI: The Bend 1:30:18
- VII: A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives 1:52:19
- VIII: The Cheap Lodging-Houses 2:08:12
- IX: Chinatown 2:25:39
- X: Jewtown 2:46:16
- XI: The Sweaters of Jewtown 3:11:04
- XII: The Bohemians—Tenement-House Cigarmaking 3:38:05
- XIII: The Color Line in New York 3:59:31
- XIV: The Common Herd 4:17:37
- XV: The Problem of the Children 4:50:33
- XVI: Waifs of the City’s Slums 5:05:29
- XVII: The Street Arab 5:20:25
- XVIII: The Reign of Rum 5:43:49
- XIX: The Harvest of Tares 5:54:33
- XX: The Working Girls of New York 6:22:30
- XXI: Pauperism in the Tenements 6:38:43
- XXII: The Wrecks and the Waste 6:59:01
- XXIII: The Man with the Knife 7:14:26
- XXIV: What Has Been Done 7:22:24
- XXV: How the Case Stands 7:47:02
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The Danish-American journalist Jacob Riis visited the slums of New York City to highlight the squalor in which the “other half” lived. He used flash photography (a new innovation), tables of statistics, and personal stories to vividly depict the city’s various neighborhoods and ethnic groups. But the book isn’t merely a factual documentary—it’s also a moralistic appraisal of greedy landlords, the abundance of cheap beer dives and saloons, the low character of the tenants, and the very low wages on which the poor tried to subsist. He described some reforms already implemented, as well as those still needed.
How the Other Half Lives was written at a time when many people were crowding into New York City. It was first published as an article in Scribner’s Magazine in 1889, along with many illustrations that were based directly on Riis’s photography. It was expanded into a full book in the next year, with the inclusion of more illustrations and some of Riis’s original photographs. The middle and upper classes were shocked by what the book described, about which they knew very little. Christian organizations in New York and beyond had similar reactions. The book was widely praised, and led to the enactment of many reforms in the following years aimed at improving the conditions of the tenements and the working poor.