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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the 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 class. The title of the book is a reference to a phrase of François Rabelais, who wrote in Pantagruel: "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives". (Summary by Wikipedia)

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis (1849 - 1914‪)‬ LibriVox

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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the 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 class. The title of the book is a reference to a phrase of François Rabelais, who wrote in Pantagruel: "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives". (Summary by Wikipedia)

    01 - Genesis of the Tenement

    01 - Genesis of the Tenement

    • 16 min
    02 - The Awakening

    02 - The Awakening

    • 10 min
    03 - The Mixed Crowd

    03 - The Mixed Crowd

    • 15 min
    04 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 1

    04 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 1

    • 14 min
    05 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 2

    05 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 2

    • 17 min
    06 - The Italian in New York

    06 - The Italian in New York

    • 11 min

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