Good Company
A Tramp Life
3rd Edition
Published on 15. March 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-138-67495-0 (ISBN)
Description
This sociological classic shows how the railroad tramp's status as a deviant changed from frontier itinerant to post settlement vagrant; from class conscious proletariat in the Depression to the damaged post WWII vet. The third edition (with new photos) discusses how today the freights have become the milieu of violent gangs who transport drugs, human traffickers, and serial killers. Beating the odds against increased post 9/11 surveillance are yuppie adventure seekers, young travelers, crust punks and oogles. In the background is the same freight train-unforgiving and lethal-and cultures policed at times by honorable tramps and at times by sadistic enforcers of violent gangs.
Features of the new edition:
Eight previously unpublished photos that reflect new directions in visual ethnography. (90 photos altogether)
A fuller integration of photos made during the author's participant research with tramps over thousands of miles on the freights and while living homeless in urban America.
New, nuanced edit of a narrative describing author's five week immersion with the quintessential tramp of the era, Carl.
Features of the new edition:
Eight previously unpublished photos that reflect new directions in visual ethnography. (90 photos altogether)
A fuller integration of photos made during the author's participant research with tramps over thousands of miles on the freights and while living homeless in urban America.
New, nuanced edit of a narrative describing author's five week immersion with the quintessential tramp of the era, Carl.
More details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
78 s/w Abbildungen, 78 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
78 Halftones, black and white; 78 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-67495-0 (9781138674950)
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Person
Douglas Harper is a founding member of the International Visual Sociology Association, founded in the late 1980s, and was founding editor of the journal Visual Studies. He has held full-time faculty appointments in several American universities and visiting appointments at the University of Bologna and the University of Amsterdam. He has exhibited his photographs internationally and his documentary, The Longest Journey Begins (2015), is co-directed by Maggie Patterson.
Content
Introduction Part One: On the Road 1 Waiting for a train 2 An old tramp 3 You can't trust everybody you meet 4 Two cans of beans 5 Another ascent of the Rockies 6 We arrived in Wenatchee 7 A tall thin tramp 8 Boston Blackie 9 One-Eyed Jack 10 The ride up the branch 11 Riffraff 12 Rubber tramp 13 Harvest jungle 14 To the orchard 15 As Golden's ripen 16 Going home Part Two: The Rise and Fall of the Tramp 17 How tramp life was transformed 18 Whither the tramp? Notes Bibliography Glossary Afterword, About the Author