How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, credited to Jacob A. Riis, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis. 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 from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
• Author credits: Jacob A. Riis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 8:50:10

Catalogue topics

• sociology
• new york
• poverty
• immigration

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Preface — 1:50
2. 01 - Genesis of the Tenement — 16:13
3. 02 - The Awakening — 10:02
4. 03 - The Mixed Crowd — 15:09
5. 04 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 1 — 14:25
6. 05 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 2 — 17:14
7. 06 - The Italian in New York — 11:07
8. 07 - The Bend — 25:46
9. 08 - A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives — 15:16
10. 09 - The Cheap Lodging-Houses — 19:13
11. 10 - Chinatown — 22:21
12. 11 - Jewtown — 25:38
13. 12 - The Sweaters of Jewtown — 29:55
14. 13 - The Bohemians - Tenement-House Cigarmaking — 21:29
15. 14 - The Color Line in New York — 19:02
16. 15 - The Common Herd Part 1 — 18:50
17. 16 - The Common Herd Part 2 — 14:35
18. 17 - The Problem of the Children — 14:17
19. 18 - Waifs of the City's Slums — 15:01
20. 19 - The Street Arab — 22:21
21. 20 - The Reign of Rum — 10:24
22. 21 - The Harvest of Tares — 30:58
23. 22 - The Working Girls of New York — 16:39
24. 23 - Pauperism in the Tenements — 26:18

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