How the other half lives : a Jacob Riis classic (including photography) /
by Jacob A. Riis.
- [San Bernardino, CA] : ReadaClassic.com, c2010.
- 206 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Genesis of the tenement -- The awakening -- The mixed crowd -- The downtown back alleys -- The Italian in New York -- The bend -- A raid on the stale-beer dives -- The cheap lodging-houses -- Chinatown -- Jewtown -- The sweaters of Jewtown -- The Bohemians-tenement-house cigarmaking -- The color line in New York -- The common herd -- The problem of the children -- Waifs of the city's slums -- The street Arab -- The reign of rum -- The harvest of tares -- The working girls of New York -- Pauperism in the tenements -- The wrecks and the waste -- The man with the knife -- What has been done -- How the case stands
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Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York. Viviendas --Estados Unidos Poor--New York (State)--New York. Pobres --Estados Unidos Barrios marginados --Estados Unidos Pobreza--Estados Unidos Inmigrantes --Condiciones económicas --Estados Unidos
Estados Unidos--Condiciones sociales Estados Unidos--Emigración e inmigración