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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Citizen hobo : how a century of homelessness shaped America / by DePastino, Todd

Table of Contents: “…The politics of hobohemia: Organizing the main stem ; "The song of the jungles" -- "A civilization without homes": Reforming the main stem ; "The hotel spirit" ; The comic tramp -- pt. 3. Resettling the hobo army, 1920-1980. The decline and fall of hobohemia: The closing of the wageworker's frontier ; Contesting hobohemia -- Forgotten men: A New Deal for the American homeless ; Folklores of homelessness -- Coming home: The decline and fall of skid row ; Dharma bums and easy riders -- pt. 4. …”
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The well-dressed hobo : the many wondrous adventures of a man who loves trains / by Loving, Rush

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

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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.…”
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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 S.

“…Hobo Orator union and the free speech fights of the industrial workers of the world, 1909-1916…”
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The Chicago School diaspora : epistemology and substance / by Bowden, Gary Lee, 1953-, Low, Jacqueline, 1964-

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Drift : illicit mobility and uncertain knowledge / by Ferrell, Jeff

Table of Contents: “…Drift dialectics -- Drift contexts -- Drift politics -- Hobo history -- Catching out -- Freedom in the form of a boxcar -- Beneath the slab -- Drift method -- Ghost images and gorgeous mistakes.…”
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How Karl Marx can save American capitalism / by Dworkin, Ronald William

Table of Contents: “…Our french revolution -- The new alienation -- A society of Hobos -- The tin man -- A fetish for commodities -- When Christianity becomes ideology -- Marx for America -- Bibliography -- About the author -- Index.…”
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City of inmates : conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 / by Hernandez, Kelly Lytle

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : conquest and incarceration -- An eliminatory option -- Hobos in heaven -- Not imprisonment in a legal sense -- Scorpion's tale -- Caged birds -- Justice for Samuel Faulkner -- Conclusion : upriver in the age of mass incarceration -- The Rebel Archive.…”
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City of inmates : conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 / by Hernandez, Kelly Lytle

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : conquest and incarceration -- An eliminatory option -- Hobos in heaven -- Not imprisonment in a legal sense -- Scorpion's tale -- Caged birds -- Justice for Samuel Faulkner -- Conclusion : upriver in the age of mass incarceration -- The Rebel Archive.…”
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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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James P. Cannon and the origins of the American revolutionary left, 1890-1928 / by Palmer, Bryan D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The communist can(n)on -- Rosedale roots: facts and fictions -- Youth's discoveries -- Hobo rebel/homeguard -- Red dawn -- Underground -- Geese in flight -- Pepper spray -- Stalinist suspensions -- Labor defender -- Living with Lovestone -- Expulsion -- Conclusion: James P. …”
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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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Joe Hill : the IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture. by Rosemont, Franklin

Table of Contents: “…Conflicting Views of IWW History -- 3. The Hobo Contribution to Critical Theory & the Origins of the Wobbly Counterculture -- 4. …”
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The boxing kings : when American heavyweights ruled the ring / by Beston, Paul, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…PARIAH; Chapter 3. THE MILLION-DOLLAR HOBO; Chapter 4. THE SUBSTITUTES; Chapter 5. BLACK MOSES; Chapter 6. …”
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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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California in the 1930s : the WPA guide to the Golden State ; introduction by David Kipen.

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

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