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Title: Between Romance and Degradation Navigating the Meanings of Vagrancy in North America, 1870-1940

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Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract:    “discovered” unemployment and vagrancy during the s, they launched a debate about work and poverty that remained vigorous for decades and in so me ways still resonates in contemporary politics. Who were these people without jobs who wandered from town to town, begging for meals and straining the meager social services of local communities? Were they honest workers cast into poverty by forces outside their control, or had their own character flaws, addictions, and manias driven them . . .

Url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctt1rfsq2g.13.pdf

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Authors: Higbie, Frank Tobias

Editors: Beier, A. L.; Ocobock, Paul

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Volume Title: Cast Out

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Publisher Location: Athens, Ohio

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Poverty and Welfare

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