The battle with the slum

The battle with the slum

New York, tenement, bidonville, quartier dégradé, quartier défavorisé, pauvreté, société urbaine, urbanité, histoire urbaine, Riis Jacob

Extract from the Introduction, 'What the fight is about' :   The slum is as old as civilization... The battle with the slum began the day civilization recognized in it her enemy. It was a losing fight until conscience joined forces with fear and self-interest against it. When common sense and the golden rule obtain among men as a rule of practice, it will be over. The two have not always been classed together, but here they are plainly seen to belong together. Justice to the individual is accepted in theory as the only safe groundwork of the commonwealth. When it is practised in dealing with the slum, there will shortly be no slum. We need not wait for the millennium, to get rid of it. We can do it now. All that is required is that it shall not be left to itself.   Jacob A. Riis (1849 - 1914) was a photographer and journalist who documented conditions in New York City's tenement housing in the nineteenth century. This book is a sequel to his work 'How the other half lives' (1890).  

Jacob A. Riis

 The Macmillan Company

 1902

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