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This text presents Nels Anderson's ethnographic work of a world of homeless men - a study conducted on Madison street in Chicago - and includes Anderson's later work on the juvenile and the tramp, the unattached migrant, and the family.

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Introduction The Hobos 1: Introduction to the Phoenix Edition of The Hobo 2: Hobohemia Defined 3: The Jungles: The Homeless Man Abroad 4: The Lodging House: The Homeless Man at Home 5: The Hobo and the Tramp 6: Summary of Findings and Recommendations 7: Summary of a Study of Four Hundred Tramps, Summer 1921 8: How and the Hobos: Character Sketch of J.E. How, "Millionaire Hobo" 9: The Slum: A Project for Study 10: The Juvenile and the Tramp 11: An Old Problem in New Form 12: The Unattached Migrant 13: Migrancy and the Labor Market 14: A Family in the Hobomania Era 15: The Sort of Jobs the Hobo Brought Urban Context: Work, and Leisure 16: Some Dimensions of Time 17: The Trend of Urban Sociology 18: Urbanism as a Way of Life Selected Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226019666, 978-0226019666
      ISBN10: 0226019667
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text presents Nels Anderson's ethnographic work of a world of homeless men - a study conducted on Madison street in Chicago - and includes Anderson's later work on the juvenile and the tramp, the unattached migrant, and the family.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction The Hobos 1: Introduction to the Phoenix Edition of The Hobo 2: Hobohemia Defined 3: The Jungles: The Homeless Man Abroad 4: The Lodging House: The Homeless Man at Home 5: The Hobo and the Tramp 6: Summary of Findings and Recommendations 7: Summary of a Study of Four Hundred Tramps, Summer 1921 8: How and the Hobos: Character Sketch of J.E. How, "Millionaire Hobo" 9: The Slum: A Project for Study 10: The Juvenile and the Tramp 11: An Old Problem in New Form 12: The Unattached Migrant 13: Migrancy and the Labor Market 14: A Family in the Hobomania Era 15: The Sort of Jobs the Hobo Brought Urban Context: Work, and Leisure 16: Some Dimensions of Time 17: The Trend of Urban Sociology 18: Urbanism as a Way of Life Selected Bibliography Index

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