Alex and the hobo : a Chicano life and story / by Taylor, José Inez, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Illustrations -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- PART I: THE STORY -- CHAPTER 2: ALEX AND THE HOBO -- PART II: THE LIFE -- CHAPTER 3: THE VALLEY -- CHAPTER 4: AWARENESS -- CHAPTER 5: SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- CHAPTER 6: ANASTACIO TAYLOR -- CHAPTER 7: BEATRIZ MONDRAGÓN -- CHAPTER 8: WOMEN IN PERIL -- CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: Juana's Witchcraft Testimony -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Vagabonds, tramps, and hobos : the literature and culture of U.S. transiency 1890-1940 / by Clayton, Owen

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Boxcar politics : the hobo in U.S. culture and literature, 1869-1956 / by Lennon, John., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Views from the boxcar: a historical and theoretical framing of boxcar politics -- The cramped boxcar: Jack London and Kelly's industrial army -- The polyphonic boxcar: the hobo in Jim Tully's Beggars of life -- The radicalized boxcar: hobos, the "speech of the people," and John Dos Passos's U.S.A -- The interracial boxcar: Scottsboro, the great Depression, and wild boys of the road -- The spiritual boxcar: lostness in on the road and the end of the political hobo -- Afterword: the end of boxcar politics.…”

On the fly! : hobo literature and songs, 1879-1941 /

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Soapbox rebellion : the Hobo Orator union and the free speech fights of the industrial workers of the world, 1909-1916 / by May, Matthew Scott

Soapbox rebellion : the Hobo Orator union and the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916 / by May, Matthew S.

“…Hobo Orator union and the free speech fights of the industrial workers of the world, 1909-1916…”
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What's the use of walking if there's a freight train going your way? : black hoboes & their songs : profusely illustrated / by Garon, Paul, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Origins of the hobo --…”
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Writing unemployment : worklessness, mobility, and citizenship in twentieth-century Canadian literatures / by Mason, Jody, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…1 Towards a Politics of Mobility: Vagabonds, Hobos, and Pioneers -- 2 The Politics of Unemployment in Leftist Periodical Cultures, 1930-1939 -- 3 Novel Protest in the 1930s -- 4 The Postwar Compact and the National Bildungsroman -- 5 New Left Culture and the New Unemployment -- Conclusion: Unemployment in Neoliberal Canada.…”
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Rough and rowdy ways : the life and hard times of Edward Anderson / by Bennett, Patrick, 1931-

Table of Contents: “…Catching up with the lost generation -- Pulp prose -- Young minds of Abilene -- Hopping a freight -- Hoboes -- Love and votes -- Writing crime in the Crescent City -- A bandit behind the walls -- Kerrville -- Radio days in Denver -- Tinseltown -- Warner Brothers -- Barrymore's passing -- Sacramento -- Domestic changes -- Swedenborg, Brownsville, and -30-…”
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Working in the magic city : moral economy in early twentieth-century Miami / by Castillo, Thomas A., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: working-class community -- Class and race in the interwar years -- Driving and chauffeuring in Miami -- Fighting the open shop -- Winter playground blues: unemployment, home labor, and the hobo express -- Appeals to harmony: Perrine Palmer and transcending scarcity -- Fighting for social harmony: relief, new deals, and the unemployed -- Labor marches: class struggle and the marginalization of class.…”
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Ain't got no home : America's great migrations and the making of an interracial left / by Battat, Erin Royston

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Race, Sex, and the Hobo; 2. An Okie Is Me; 3. Steel Mill Blues; 4. Beyond the Migrant Mother; 5. …”
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Canadian content : culture and the quest for nationhood / by Edwardson, Ryan, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a guide to Canadianization -- Colony to nation: morality, modernity, and the nationalist use of culture -- Culturing Canada: the Massey Commission and the broadcasting, film, and arts triumvirate -- From institution to industry: mass media and state intervention, 1958-1966 -- Canadian content woes: cultural imbalance and undercurrents in the 1960s -- Creating the peaceable kingdom: a new nationalist Canadian identity -- Guaranteed culture: nationalism and the question of intervention -- Saving Canada: Pierre Trudeau and the mobilization of culture -- Littlest Hobos and Kings of Kensington: Canadian cultural melange in the 1970s -- From citizens to consumers: cultural industrialism and the commodification of Canadian content -- Canadianization in a time of globalization -- Conclusion: building Canada: culture and the quest ofr nationhood.…”
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Ain't got no home : America's great migrations and the making of an interracial left / by Battat, Erin Royston

Bitter music / by Partch, Harry, 1901-1974

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- June 11, 1935 : Santa Rosa, California -- June 15 : Harrington Ranch, San Joaquin Delta -- June 24 : Today is my birthday-- -- London, October 1934 -- By the rivers of Babylon -- I draw my last bow, and there is silence-- -- Wimbledon, London, March 1935 -- Harrington Ranch, June 24, 1935 -- July 20 : Heading north, between Sacramento and Redding -- July 25 : Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington -- August 5 : Toledo -- August 11 : SERA Camp, Ingot -- September 1 : Cisco -- October 22 : Nearing Monterey -- Letter from Hobo Pablo -- Near Lodi I cut the huge Tokays -- October 24 : Leaving Big Sur -- October 30 : Big Creek -- November 15 : Leaving Santa Barbara -- December?…”
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California in the 1930s : the WPA guide to the Golden State ; introduction by David Kipen.

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Tarantula / by Dylan, Bob, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Guns, the falcon's mouthbook & gashcat unpunished -- Having a weird drink with the long tall stranger -- (Pointless like a witch) -- Ballad in plain be flat -- On busting the sound barrier -- Thermometer dropping -- Prelude to the flat pick -- Maria on a floating barge -- Sand in the mouth of the movie star -- Roping off the madman's corner -- Mouthful of loving choke -- The horse race -- Pocketful of scoundrel -- Mr. useless says good-bye to labor & cuts a record -- Advice to Tiger's brother -- On watching the riot from a filthy cell or (the jailhouse has no kitchen) -- Hopeless & Maria Nowhere -- A confederate poke into King Arthur's oakie -- Guitars kissing & the contemporary fix -- Advice to Hobo's model -- A blast of loser take nothing -- making love on maria's friend -- Note to the errand boy as a young army deserter -- Taste of shotgun -- Mae West stomp (a fable) -- Black nite crash -- Hostile black nite crash -- Unresponsible black night crash -- Electric black nite crash -- Somebody's black nite crash -- Seems like a black nite crash -- Chug a lug -- Chug a lug hear me hollar hi dee ho -- Paradise, skid row & Maria Briefly -- A punch of pacifist -- Sacred cracked voice & the jingle jingle morning -- Flunking the propaganda course -- Ape on Sunday -- Cowboy angel blues -- Subterranean homesick blues & the Blond waltz -- Furious Simon's nasty humor -- I found the piano player very crosseyed but extremely solid -- The Vandals took the handles (an opera) -- A sheriff in the machinery -- False eyelash in Maria's transmission -- Al Aaraaf & the forcing committee.…”

Hobohemia and the crucifixion machine : rival images of a new world in 1930s Vancouver / by McCallum, Todd

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The outlaw bible of American poetry /

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Class unknown : undercover investigations of American work and poverty from the progressive era to the present / by Pittenger, Mark

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Marginal people in deviant places : ethnography, difference, and the challenge to scientific racism / by Irvine, Janice M.

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