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How the Other Half Lives
Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Jacob A. Riis
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Table of Contents
Front Matter
Transcriber’s Note
Book Details
Preface
Contents
List of Illustrations.
Introduction
Chapter I: Genesis of the Tenement.
Chapter II: The Awakening.
Chapter III: The Mixed Crowd.
Chapter IV: The Down Town Back-Alleys.
Chapter V: The Italian in New York.
Chapter VI: The Bend.
Chapter VII: A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives.
Chapter VIII: The Cheap Lodging-Houses.
Chapter IX: Chinatown.
Chapter X: Jewtown.
Chapter XI: The Sweaters of Jewtown.
Chapter XII:The Bohemians—Tenement-House Cigarmaking.
Chapter XIII: The Color Line in New York.
Chapter XIV: The Common Herd.
Chapter XV: The Problem of the Children.
Chapter XVI: Waifs of the City’s Slums.
Chapter XVII: The Street Arab.
Chapter XVIII: The Reign of Rum.
Chapter XIX: The Harvest of Tares.
Chapter XX: The Working Girls of New York.
Chapter XXI: Pauperism in the Tenements.
Chapter XXII: The Wrecks and the Waste.
Chapter XXIII: The Man With the Knife.
Chapter XXIV: What Has Been Done.
Chapter XXV: How the Case Stands.
Appendix: Statistics Bearing on the Tenement Problem.
Back Matter
Footnotes
Transcriber’s Note
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