Walking to Work : Tramps in America, 1790-1935

Chapters: Part I: 1) the Strolling Poor: Transiency in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts, 2) The Transformation of the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Part II: 1) Tramping Artisans: Carpenters in Industrial America, 1880-90, 2) The "Traveling Fraternity": Union Cigar Makers and Geographic Mobility, 1900-1919. Part III:1) Forced to Tramp: The Perspective of the Labor Press, 1870-1900, 2) Sisters of the Road: Women Transients and Tramps, 3) Regional Dimensions of Tramping, North and South, 1880-1910, 4) Tramping Workers, 1890-1920: A Subcultural View.