How the Other Half Lives

Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Jacob A. Riis

How the Other Half Lives together with its sequel Battle with the Slum reveal through Riis’s sensationalist prose and photography the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.

Bibliographic Record Preface Introduction

Contents

Illustrations

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS CHIEFLY FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR

NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, 1890 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000

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
26. Appendix