How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis was very concerned with the treatment that immigrants received when they came to America. He did a lot of research and reporting of the conditions that immigrants faced such as work...

In his book, Jacob Riis delineates the experiences of new immigrants to America in the 19th Century. Interestingly, he devotes entire chapters to specific immigrant nationalities such as the...

While my description and yours may differ, it is hard to deny that Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives was one of the more influential books in late nineteenth-century America. Riis, an...

It is hard to make the argument that Riis, by himself, changed America's moral values. However, the "muckraker movement," of which Riis was a part, certainly changed American attitudes towards...

As with most of How the Other Half Lives, this chapter is about the bad conditions in which people live and work. In this case, the focus of the chapter is people from Bohemia, which is now in the...

The tenements on New York's Lower East Side were described in the 1890 pioneering photojournalistic work How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis. These...

Riis blamed the crowded and unhealthy conditions in the tenements primarily on the rich. First, he said, the rich simply didn't know how bad the conditions of the poor were, which is why he called...

"How The Other Half Lives," first published in 1890, describes the living conditions in the slums of New York City. In chapter 4, Riis describes a tenement building and the people who live inside....

Riis doesn't focus on a disease that kills babies—though he mentions smallpox in passing—but he does emphasize that infants often die from being abandoned by their desperate parents. Parents...

Riis, while a progressive and deeply sympathetic to the poor and downtrodden people that were his subjects, was hardly immune to the racial attitudes of his time. His most famous work, "How the...

The name of the man who wrote the book How the Other Half Lives was Jacob Riis. His profession was journalist. He was a reporter for newspapers in New York City. Jacob Riis was born in Denmark in...