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How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York
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ISBN: 0486220125 9780486220123 Year: 1971 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Dover

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In How the Other Half Lives, New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. In his book Riis gave a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor. Riis originally documented all his studies with photographs. However, since the half-tone technique of photo reproduction had not been perfected, the original edition included mainly reductions in sketch-form of Riis' photographs. These could not begin to capture what Riis' sensitive camera caught on film. The anguish and the apathy, the toughness and the humiliation of the anonymous faces is all but obliterated in the sketches. This Dover edition includes fully 100 photographs, many famous, and many less familiar, from the Riis collection of the City Museum, and their inclusion here creates a closer conformity to Riis' intentions than did the original edition. Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced to live there. Riis was one of those immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he exposed the shameful conditions of life with which he was all too familiar. Today, he is best remembered as a compassionate and effective reformer and as a pioneer photo-journalist.


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Charles Booth's London : a portrait of the poor at the turn of the century drawn from his Life and labour of the people in London
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ISBN: 0140400206 Year: 1971 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books


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The economics of poverty
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ISBN: 0471055654 9780471055655 Year: 1971 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Wiley


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Welfare and working fathers : low-income family life styles
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ISBN: 0669738581 Year: 1971 Publisher: Lexington Heath


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Rich and poor in Renaissance Venice
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ISBN: 063112540X Year: 1971 Publisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Basil Blackwell,

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Pawnbroking --- -Poor --- -Social service --- -Renaissance --- -Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Human services --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Collateral loans --- Monts-de-piété --- Pawnshops --- Loans, Personal --- Pledges (Law) --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History --- Economic conditions --- Catholic Church --- -Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Charities --- Social service --- History. --- Charities. --- -History --- -Charities --- Benevolent institutions --- Pawn broking --- Church of Rome --- Pauvrete --- Venise (italie) --- Conditions sociales --- 16e siecle

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