Indispensable Outcasts
Subtitle: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (Working Class in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780252027949
Subjects: Economics, Finance, Business and Industry; Migrant Workers; U.S. History - Progressive Era (1900-1917); Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; USA; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; United States - General; History / United States / General; Labor; United States - 20th Century; Middle West; Migrant agricultural laborers; Migrant labor; Progressivism (United States p; Seasonal labor
First sentence: THE YEARLY MOVEMENT of laborers through the harvest fields of the Great Plains often confronted observers as a mystery of nature.