Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930
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AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction11"Like the Flock of Swallows That Come in the Springtime": The Uneasy Place of Hobo Workers in Midwestern Economy and Culture252Retelling Life Stories: Floating Labor and the Terrain of Progressive Era Social Investigation663Reassessing the "Floating Laborer": The Social Geography of Work and Community in the Upper Midwest984The Hobo, the Wobbly, and the "Battle of Mitchell": Unionization and the Politics of Community in the Wheat Belt1345"We Thought of Ourselves as Men after Awhile": Mutuality, Violence, and the Apprenticeship of the Road173Conclusion205Bibliography217Index243
