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Article: The tramp is back.(The Tramp in America; Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930)(Book review)
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- Labour/Le Travail
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- September 22, 2005
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Tim Cresswell, The Tramp in America (London: Reaktion Books 2001) Todd DePastino, Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2003)
Frank Tobias Higbie, Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2003)
OF TUDOR ENGLAND'S vagrants R.H. Tawney wrote, "His history is inevitably written by his enemies." (1) For the hoboes, tramps, and bums who wandered across North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, not much had changed. Ben Reitman, self-styled "King of the Hoboes," was a source for the seminal studies ...