Children of the Tenements
Jacob A. Riis
Read by Judi Mason
This is a collection of vignettes about poverty in New York City in the early 1900s. Jacob Riis was a police reporter and a sociologist. He made human the faces of extreme poverty and did not limit his often-wrenching prose to children. He included old people and animals, and described diverse cultures. These stories evoke both laughter and tears. (9 hr 41 min)
Chapters
| Preface | 1:55 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Rent Baby | 18:01 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Story of Bleeker Street | 11:37 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Kid Hangs Up His Stocking | 10:38 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Slipper-Maker's Fast | 4:57 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Death Comes to Cat Alley | 5:44 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Proposal on the Elevated | 8:10 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Little Will's Message | 17:15 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Lost Children | 14:55 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Paolo's Awakening | 22:30 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Little Dollar's Christmas Journey | 21:28 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Kid | 4:51 | Read by Judi Mason |
| When the Letter Came | 6:30 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Cat Took the Kosher Meat | 5:54 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Nibsy's Christmas | 19:10 | Read by Judi Mason |
| In the Children's Hospital | 13:17 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Nigger Martha's Wake | 9:53 | Read by Judi Mason |
| What the Christmas Sun Saw in the Tenements | 25:03 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Midwinter in New York | 37:20 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Chip from the Maelstrom | 5:34 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Sarah Joyce's Husbands | 4:12 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Merry Christmas in the Tenements | 1:07:23 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Abe's Game of Jacks | 5:36 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Little Picture | 2:37 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Dream of the Woods | 9:15 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Twas 'Liza's Doings | 18:56 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Heroes Who Fight Fire | 59:46 | Read by Judi Mason |
| John Gavin, Misfit | 7:20 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Heathen Baby | 7:35 | Read by Judi Mason |
| The Christening in Bottle Alley | 7:35 | Read by Judi Mason |
| In the Mulberry Street Court | 4:03 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Difficulties of a Deacon | 11:34 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Fire in the Barracks | 3:57 | Read by Judi Mason |
| War on the Goats | 7:16 | Read by Judi Mason |
| He Kept His Tryst | 5:52 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Rover's Last Fight | 9:22 | Read by Judi Mason |
| How Jim Went to the War | 17:26 | Read by Judi Mason |
| A Backwoods Hero | 8:23 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Jack's Sermon | 13:48 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Skippy of Scrabble Alley | 10:50 | Read by Judi Mason |
| Making a Way Out of the Slum | 34:15 | Read by Judi Mason |
Reviews
Ignored the central problem
Bill Cosby
Poverty sucks. The author, however, failed to point out the solution. The solution to poverty and inequality is to empower the federal government to take money away from the middle class and redistribute it to extremely competent billionaires, who will then give the money to their millionaire nieces, who head institutes fighting inequality. These institutes will supply money to corporations owned by billionaires to provide subsidized crime ridden urban ghettos to people who otherwise would organically find a cheaper and safer place to live.