How the the other half lives written by Jacob Riis provides a very conflicted but rational scene upon which the development and state of living conditions were on the lower east side in the 19th century. Riis provided photographs of the streets, people, and tenement apartments he encountered, using black and white slides to coincide the text, his powerful images brought public attention to urban conditions giving us a visual understanding of his writing upon how the lower class lived. Furthermore he explains the economic and social concept as well as how poverty among those who were immigrants and struggling to live. It was said the wealthy never even consider helping the lower east side instead they donated to other organizations when they could have given back to the community, Riis stresses that fact in his book.
There are many things that Riis bring up in the book when it came to the living condition in New York City by expsoing and pubiczing the enviormenal factors in which immigrants lived and setting a tone that will speak directly to people's hearts to explain the major problems they faced making it an eye opener to see what is really going in chapters 1-4 in his book. Riis also explains the predicament of working children in factories and other jobs. Some children became garment workers, he describes the system of tenement housing that failed, because of greed and neglect from rich people. He also mentions the high crime rate, alcohol consumption and reckless behaviour of the poor and their lack of a proper housing. Due to the fact that many people were unclean it lead up to many people prone to getting sick and have diseases that were very deadly making it hard for immigrants to work. Jacob Riis tells a very interesting but shocking experience of the lower class life in New York City. Riis was a danish immigrant who arrived in America in 1870 at the age of 21, seeing and experiencing how immigrants lived and work without no support for himself encouraged him to write a book. Exposing how the lower east side, making an attempt to help shed light on important factors that went about in the east side and trying to give them a understand of what is really going on so they can make an attempt to fix things. The New York house tenement act was one of many things …show more content…
Jacob Riis was the first and only person to expose these conditions that the lower east side faced and lived in. Using his straight forwardness, semi emotional tactics and very powerful photograph, he actually detailed life in poverty by showing the images of the migrants and how the environment affected them. Jacob Riis’s book was very successful after it published that as time went by things started to change for the poor. How the other half lives helped in many ways such as abolishing police lodging houses, as well as laws to increase the number of factory inspectors to ensure workers safety. The wages law came into effect, regulation of the working hours of women and children. As well as multiple other labor reforms came into factor after his book was published and pointing out the flaws of people in the community and the government failed to
There are many things that Riis bring up in the book when it came to the living condition in New York City by expsoing and pubiczing the enviormenal factors in which immigrants lived and setting a tone that will speak directly to people's hearts to explain the major problems they faced making it an eye opener to see what is really going in chapters 1-4 in his book. Riis also explains the predicament of working children in factories and other jobs. Some children became garment workers, he describes the system of tenement housing that failed, because of greed and neglect from rich people. He also mentions the high crime rate, alcohol consumption and reckless behaviour of the poor and their lack of a proper housing. Due to the fact that many people were unclean it lead up to many people prone to getting sick and have diseases that were very deadly making it hard for immigrants to work. Jacob Riis tells a very interesting but shocking experience of the lower class life in New York City. Riis was a danish immigrant who arrived in America in 1870 at the age of 21, seeing and experiencing how immigrants lived and work without no support for himself encouraged him to write a book. Exposing how the lower east side, making an attempt to help shed light on important factors that went about in the east side and trying to give them a understand of what is really going on so they can make an attempt to fix things. The New York house tenement act was one of many things …show more content…
Jacob Riis was the first and only person to expose these conditions that the lower east side faced and lived in. Using his straight forwardness, semi emotional tactics and very powerful photograph, he actually detailed life in poverty by showing the images of the migrants and how the environment affected them. Jacob Riis’s book was very successful after it published that as time went by things started to change for the poor. How the other half lives helped in many ways such as abolishing police lodging houses, as well as laws to increase the number of factory inspectors to ensure workers safety. The wages law came into effect, regulation of the working hours of women and children. As well as multiple other labor reforms came into factor after his book was published and pointing out the flaws of people in the community and the government failed to