"A Flight of Alien, Unclean Birds": The Mobility of Hobo Labor in Iowa 1870s-1910s

Nathan Tye

doi:10.17077/0003-4827.31948

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"A Flight of Alien, Unclean Birds": The Mobility of Hobo Labor in Iowa 1870s-1910s

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NATHAN TYE explores the place of hobos in Iowa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that transitory workers' illicit rail travel, apparent disconnection from society, and sudden arrival and departure unsettled rural and urban lowans and that hobos' efforts to advocate and organize publicly elicited strong responses from legislators, law enforcement, editorialists, and even the Iowa Supreme Court

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How to Cite: Tye, N. (2022) “"A Flight of Alien, Unclean Birds": The Mobility of Hobo Labor in Iowa 1870s-1910s”, The Annals of Iowa. 81(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/0003-4827.31948