Children of the Tenements
Jacob A. Riis
Lu par 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)
Chapitres
| Preface | 1:55 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| The Rent Baby | 18:01 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| A Story of Bleeker Street | 11:37 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| The Kid Hangs Up His Stocking | 10:38 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| The Slipper-Maker's Fast | 4:57 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Death Comes to Cat Alley | 5:44 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| A Proposal on the Elevated | 8:10 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Little Will's Message | 17:15 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Lost Children | 14:55 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Paolo's Awakening | 22:30 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| The Little Dollar's Christmas Journey | 21:28 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| The Kid | 4:51 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| When the Letter Came | 6:30 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| The Cat Took the Kosher Meat | 5:54 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Nibsy's Christmas | 19:10 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| In the Children's Hospital | 13:17 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Nigger Martha's Wake | 9:53 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| What the Christmas Sun Saw in the Tenements | 25:03 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Midwinter in New York | 37:20 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| A Chip from the Maelstrom | 5:34 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Sarah Joyce's Husbands | 4:12 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Merry Christmas in the Tenements | 1:07:23 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Abe's Game of Jacks | 5:36 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| A Little Picture | 2:37 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| A Dream of the Woods | 9:15 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Twas 'Liza's Doings | 18:56 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Heroes Who Fight Fire | 59:46 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| John Gavin, Misfit | 7:20 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| A Heathen Baby | 7:35 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| The Christening in Bottle Alley | 7:35 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| In the Mulberry Street Court | 4:03 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Difficulties of a Deacon | 11:34 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Fire in the Barracks | 3:57 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| War on the Goats | 7:16 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| He Kept His Tryst | 5:52 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Rover's Last Fight | 9:22 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| How Jim Went to the War | 17:26 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| A Backwoods Hero | 8:23 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Jack's Sermon | 13:48 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Skippy of Scrabble Alley | 10:50 | Lu par Judi Mason |
| Making a Way Out of the Slum | 34:15 | Lu par Judi Mason |
Critiques
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.