The Classic Slum

The Classic Slum
Author: Robert Roberts
Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1971
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Classic Slum

The Classic Slum
Author: Robert Roberts
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 279
Release: 1990-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 014193235X

A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the 'good old days' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.

A Ragged Schooling

A Ragged Schooling
Author: Robert Roberts
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1997-08-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781901341010

In this autobiography, the author evokes his Edwardian childhood in his portrait of a vanished community as he tells how he and the other children of Salford struggled daily to survive the poverty that surrounded them.

The Battle with the Slum

The Battle with the Slum
Author: Jacob A. Riis
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486157067

Classic work of reportage documents life of the urban poor at the turn of the century. Real-life tales and rare photographs celebrate efforts to demolish breeding grounds of crime and improve conditions in schools and tenements.

Five Points

Five Points
Author: Tyler Anbinder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439137749

The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was invented. All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. Yet it was also a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters and dance halls, prizefighters and machine politicians, and meeting halls for the political clubs that would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich. Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs. Beginning with the Irish potato-famine influx in the 1840s, and ending with the rise of Chinatown in the early twentieth century, he weaves unforgettable individual stories into a tapestry of tenements, work crews, leisure pursuits both licit and otherwise, and riots and political brawls that never seemed to let up. Although the intimate stories that fill Anbinder's narrative are heart-wrenching, they are perhaps not so shocking as they first appear. Almost all of us trace our roots to once humble stock. Five Points is, in short, a microcosm of America.

Planet of Slums

Planet of Slums
Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2007-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1844671607

Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.

Child of the Jago

Child of the Jago
Author: Arthur Morrison
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0897336534

This novel, first published in 1896, is the story of Dick Perrot, born and bred in the Jago; but it is also a brilliant portrait of the community. The Jago is a London slum where crime and violence are the only way of life, and from which there is no escape for the inhabitants. Only the characters themselves are fictional: Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance schemes.

The Gold Coast and the Slum

The Gold Coast and the Slum
Author: Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1983-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226989453

"This is a book about Chicago. It is also, and for that very reason, a book about every other American city which has lived long enough and grown large enough to experience the transformation of neighborhoods and the contact of cultures and the tension between different types of individual and community behavior. . . . Here is a type of sociological investigation which is equally marked by human interest and scientific method."—Christian Century