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How the other half lives
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. -
The history of the standard oil company by ida tarbell
Writer and editor Ida M. Tarbell (1857-1944) was one of the first great female journalists in the United States. Her best-known work, The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904), exposed the questionable business practices of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust, which had been formed when Rockefeller combined all his corporations in an attempt to reduce competition and control prices in the oil industry. -
The shame of the cities Lincoln steffens
Lincoln Steffens muckraking masterpiece The Shame of the Cities exposes political corruption across America's greatest cities at the turn of the twentieth century. His collected articles present a portrait of the political and social landscape of each city and the variable effects of currption on city life. -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
