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 an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. 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. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Tramps United States History. Unemployment United States History. Economic history. Social conditions. Tramps. Unemployment. United States Economic conditions. Addresses, essays, lectures. Tramps History United States. Unemployment History United States. United States Economic conditions. United States Social conditions 1865-1918. United States Social conditions 1918-1932. Physical description: 253 pages ; 23 cm.