The Children of the Poor and Other Works by Jacob Riis

This ebook contains two non-fiction works (THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR and THE BATTLE OF THE SLUM) by social reformer and muckraking journalist Jacob A. Riis. Riis (1849-1914) was a pioneer in photography who documented much of the worst of the New York tenement slums. He also wrote extensively on the social problems in the immigrant slums of late 19th- and early 20th Century America. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.