Track | Chapter | Reader | Length |
01 | 00 - Preface | Guero | 1:44 |
02 | 01 - Genesis of the Tenement | Maggie Russell | 16:02 |
03 | 02 - The Awakening | Lee Ann Howlett | 9:54 |
04 | 03 - The Mixed Crowd | Lee Ann Howlett | 15:02 |
05 | 04 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 1 | MaryAnn | 14:16 |
06 | 05 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 2 | MaryAnn | 17:07 |
07 | 06 - The Italian in New York | Phil Chenevert | 10:59 |
08 | 07 - The Bend | Phil Chenevert | 25:36 |
09 | 08 - A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives | Matthew Reece | 15:09 |
10 | 09 - The Cheap Lodging=Houses | Parrot17 | 19:01 |
11 | 10 - Chinatown | Parrot17 | 21:34 |
12 | 11 - Jewtown | Phil Chenevert | 25:27 |
13 | 12 - The Sweaters of Jewtown | Phil Chenevert | 29:45 |
14 | 13 - The Bohemians - Tenement-House Cigarmaking | Phil Chenevert | 21:21 |
16 | 15 - The Common Herd Part 1 | Lee Ann Howlett | 18:40 |
17 | 16 - The Common Herd Part 2 | Phil Chenevert | 14:26 |
18 | 17 - The Problem of the Children | Matthew Reece | 14:07 |
19 | 18 - Waifs of the City's Slums | Lee Ann Howlett | 14:52 |
20 | 19 - The Street Arab | mevans | 22:10 |
21 | 20 - The Reign of Rum | ashleighjane | 10:17 |
22 | 21 - The Harvest of Tares | Guero | 30:46 |
23 | 22 - The Working Girls of New York | Guero | 16:30 |
24 | 23 - Pauperism in the Tenements | Denny Sayers | 26:05 |
25 | 24 - The Wrecks and the Waste | Lee Ann Howlett | 16:30 |
26 | 25 - The Man with the Knife | ashleighjane | 7:20 |
27 | 26 - What Has Been Done | Phil Chenevert | 25:38 |
28 | 27 - How the Case Stands | Phil Chenevert | 26:24 |
29 | 28 - Appendix | Guero | 19:43 |
Notes
Running Time: 8 hours 45 minutes
Read by: Multiple readers
Book Coordinator: Rachel
Meta Coordinator: MaryAnn S.
Artwork
Cover: Bandit's Roost (1888) by Jacob Riis, from How the Other Half Lives.
Inset: Photo of Jacob Riis.
Insert: Cigarmakers by Jacob Riis, from How the Other Half Lives.
Recordings
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York by Jacob Riis was a ground-breaking book that documented the squalid living conditions in the New York City tenements in the 1880’s. The book evolved from a magazine article in Scribners magazine in 1889 and is one of the first examples of photojournalism. Riis, a successful police reporter, used the newly invented technique of flash photography to capture images of the dark, unlit corners of the slums. The title is a reference to a sentence in Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais: “one half of the world does not know how the other half lives”. Combined with sketches, narrative and statistics, Riis portrayed a world unknown or overlooked by the middle- and upper-classes of society where poor migrants and immigrants lived in unsanitary housing and often worked in sweatshops for pennies a day. He assumed that raising the consciousness (and conscience) of the public about the poor conditions and the crime rate, drunkenness and recklessness that were the consequence would motivate efforts to make improvements. The direct result was a decade of what we would now call “urban renewal” in the Lower East Side, where tenements were torn down, schools reformed, child labor eliminated and sweatshops closed.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0683422134548 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0686175923759 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Box |
Author | Jacob Riis (1849 -1915) |
Year | 1890 |
Recording | |
Read by | Multiple readers |
Length | 8 hours and 45 minutes |
Type of Reading | Collaborative |
How the Other Half Lives
- Author: Jacob Riis
- Product Code: DB-1135
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