How the Other Half Lives

Riis, Jacob A.

ISBN 10: 0809000121 / ISBN 13: 9780809000128

Published by Hill & Wang Pub, 1957

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How the Other Half Lives
• Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
• Publication Date: 1957
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809000121
• ISBN 13: 9780809000128
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The classic account of a police reporter's personal observations and judgements of New York City's slums in the late nineteenth century

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In How The Other Half Lives New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. In his book Riis gave a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor.