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The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man
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ISBN10: 1614277443
ISBN13: 9781614277446
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: Dec 4 2014
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781614277446
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: Dec 4 2014
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is an account, written with insight and sympathy, of the life of the hobo, life in Hobohemia, a frontier that was already beginning to vanish when this study originally appeared in 1923. The author, drawing from his own experience as a hobo, pictures life in the main stem of Halsted and State Streets in Chicago. Here are the customs and class distinctions, language, songs, morals and intellectual life of this body of men who, for widely varying reasons, chose the migratory life. A new introduction by the author places the hobo in historical perspective and explains his disappearance from the American scene.
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