How the Other Half Lives A Jacob Riis Classic (Including Photography)

Name: How the Other Half Lives A Jacob Riis Classic (Including Photography)
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ISBN: 9781611040760

ISBN-10: 1611040760

ISBN-13: 9781611040760

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jacob Riis

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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…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Publisher: ReadaClassic.com
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English