How the Other Half Lives
By Jacob Riis
- Release Date: 2025-06-04
- Genre: Classics
Description
How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890, is Jacob Riis’s pioneering work of photojournalism and social reform. Documenting the squalid living conditions of New York City’s tenement dwellers, Riis combines vivid descriptions with groundbreaking photographs to expose poverty, overcrowding, and systemic neglect. The book galvanized public awareness and helped launch housing reforms in the early 20th century. As a seminal work of muckraking journalism, it remains a vital document in American social history and urban reform.
