How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City’s upper and middle class. The title of the book is a reference to a phrase of François Rabelais, who wrote in Pantagruel: "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives".

Latest episodes of the podcast How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis

• 00 - Preface
• 01 - Genesis of the Tenement
• 02 - The Awakening
• 03 - The Mixed Crowd
• 04 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 1
• 05 - The Down Town Back-Alleys Part 2
• 06 - The Italian in New York
• 07 - The Bend
• 08 - A Raid on the Stale-Beer Dives
• 09 - The Cheap Lodging=Houses
• 10 - Chinatown
• 11 - Jewtown
• 12 - The Sweaters of Jewtown
• 13 - The Bohemians - Tenement-House Cigarmaking
• 14 - The Color Line in New York
• 15 - The Common Herd Part 1
• 16 - The Common Herd Part 2
• 17 - The Problem of the Children
• 18 - Waifs of the City's Slums
• 19 - The Street Arab
• 20 - The Reign of Rum
• 21 - The Harvest of Tares
• 22 - The Working Girls of New York
• 23 - Pauperism in the Tenements
• 24 - The Wrecks and the Waste
• 25 - The Man with the Knife
• 26 - What Has Been Done
• 27 - How the Case Stands
• 28 - Appendix