Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
Working class. Manual workers.
That my friend is very true.
Irish immigrants lived in tenements.......
tenements
working class
Many immigrants lived in urban apartment slums called flats. These flats held a great many people and were often overcrowded.
Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
immigrants lived in tenements and some of there kitchens had no windows.
Working class. Manual workers.
That my friend is very true.
recent immigrants
Jacob Riis exposed the problem in tenements by taking pictures of the life in tenements. He showed these pictures to the government and to the people populated in areas which held a lot of tenements where many immigrants lived.
immigrants
Irish immigrants lived in tenements.......
Cities were diverse, but separated by social classes. Wealthy urbanites settled away from immigrants and industry. Many immigrants worked in sweatshops and lived in crowded, unsanitary dumbbell tenements.
Why does Riis describe the tenements in which many immigrants live as "dens of death"?
tenements