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264 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781590177068
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication date: 24 September 2013
Description
New York's Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on earth in the 1890s. Health inspectors called the neighborhood "the suicide ward." Diarrhea epidemics raged each summer, killing thousands of children. Sweatshop ba...
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264 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781590177068
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication date: 24 September 2013
Description
New York's Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on earth in the 1890s. Health inspectors called the neighborhood "the suicide ward." Diarrhea epidemics raged each summer, killing thousands of children. Sweatshop ba...