How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob A. Riis

204 pages first pub 1890 (editions)

nonfiction classics history sociology dark informative reflective slow-paced
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During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalo...

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