Indispensable Outcasts
Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930
Published on 8. July 2003
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-252-02794-9 (ISBN)
Description
A study of seasonal workers in the midwest during the Progressive Era.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-252-02794-9 (9780252027949)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
"Like the flock of swallows that come in the springtime"; the uneasy place of seasonal labourers in midwestern economy and culture; retelling life stories - floating labour and the terrain of progressive era social investigation; reassessing the "floating laborer" - the social geography of work and community in the upper Midwest; the hobo - the wobbly and the "Battle of Mitchell" - unionization and the politics of community in the wheat belt; "We thought of ourselves as men after awhile" - mutuality - violence and the apprenticeship of the road; conclusion.