How the Other Half Lives,9780140436792

How the Other Half Lives

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780140436792
ISBN10: 0140436790
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-11-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100& photographs.

Author Biography

Luc Sante teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College. His books include Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii(2)
Introduction ix(14)
Luc Sante
Suggestions for Further Reading xxiii(4)
A Note on the Text xxvii
How the Other Half Lives 1(218)
Preface 3(2)
Introduction 5(4)
1 Genesis of the Tenement
9(8)
2 The Awakening
17(4)
3 The Mixed Crowd
21(5)
4 The Down Town Back-alleys
26(15)
5 The Italian in New York
41(5)
6 The Bend
46(12)
7 A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives
58(8)
8 The Cheap Lodging-houses
66(7)
9 Chinatown
73(9)
10 Jewtown
82(10)
11 The Sweaters of Jewtown
92(11)
12 The Bohemians--Tenement-house Cigarmaking
103(9)
13 The Color Line in New York
112(8)
14 The Common Herd
120(15)
15 The Problem of the Children
135(6)
16 Waifs of the City's Slums
141(6)
17 The Street Arab
147(12)
18 The Reign of Rum
159(5)
19 The Harvest of Tares
164(12)
20 The Working Girls of New York
176(7)
21 Pauperism in the Tenements
183(8)
22 The Wrecks and the Waste
191(5)
23 The Man with the Knife
196(3)
24 What Has Been Done
199(10)
25 How the Case Stands
209(10)
Appendix 219(6)
Explanatory Notes 225

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