Walking to work : tramps in America, 1790-1935 / edited by Eric H. Monkkonen

Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 253 pages ; 23 cm. Contents; Introduction / Eric H. Monkkonen -- Part I. The beginnings of Industrial tramping -- The strolling poor: transiency in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts / Douglas Lamar Jones -- The transformation of the wandering poor in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia / Priscilla Ferguson Clement -- Part II. Organized labor and tramps -- Tramping Artisans: carpenters in industrial America, 1880-90 / Jules Tygiel -- The ""Traveling Fraternity"": union cigar makers and geographic mobility, 1900-1919 / Patricia A. Cooper -- Part III. Perspectives on the industrial tramps -- Forced to tramp: the perspective of the labor press, 1870-1900 -- Sisters of the road: women transients and tramps / Lynn Weiner -- Regional dimensions of tramping, North and South, 1880-1910 / Eric H. Monkkonen -- Tramping workers, 1890-1920: a subcultural view / John C. Schneider -- Afterword / Eric H. Monkkonen. Subjects; Tramps United States History. Unemployment United States History. Social conditions. Tramps. Addresses, essays, lectures.