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 …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