Bøger af Jacob Riis

The papers which form this autobiography were originally published in The Outlook, the chapter telling of my going "home to mother" in The Churchman, and parts of one or two others in The Century Magazine. To those who have been asking if they are made-up stories, let me say here that they are not. And I am mighty glad they are not. I would not have missed being in it all for anything.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.

Originally published in 1890, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes. This work inspired many reforms of working-class housing, both immediately after publication as well as making a lasting impact in today's society. Table of Contents PREFACE. 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. Footnotes

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''How the Other Half Lives'' by Jacob Riis sheds fascinating light on how our immigrants in the 1800's lived in New York City. A must-read for Americans whose family has been in the U.S. for only a few generations, this book tells what it was really like in the slums. Whether Irish, Italian, Jewish, Chinese or Polish, German, Russian, hordes of refugees ended up in New York on the promise of a better life. Entrepreneurs lured poor people from Eastern Europe and contracted out their labor in sweat shops in the US. The laborers lived in tenements, which were dark, unventilated cages in blocks of buildings that rented for a surprising high rent to people who died by the thousands in the unsanitary conditions. The conditions described by Jacob Riis in this classic are heart-rending, especially the part about foundling babies (abandoned newborns). A cradle was put outside a Catholic Church and instead of a baby each night, racks of babies appeared. The Church had to establish foundling hospitals run by nuns, who persuaded the unwed or impoverished mothers to nurse the baby they gave up, plus another baby. The child mortality rate, especially in the ''back tenements'' or buildings built on to the back of others (dark and airless) was incredible. Riis also provides interesting information about the gangs of New York in ''How the Other Half Lived.''

How the Other Half Lives occupies a premier place on a small list of American books-along with Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Jungle, Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique, and Unsafe at Any Speed-that changed public opinion, influenced public policy, and left an indelible mark on history.