Skip to content

Chapter VIII: Work

Text size

73. Pioneer type, fifty, seldom comes East, miner,
prospector, lumber jack.

77. Man forced to be idle by hard times, learned to get
along, later refused work.

83. Old man, fifty, single, winters in Chicago, farm jobs
in summer, drinks some.

93. Laborer, migrant, forty-four, becoming radical on
account of work shortage, had some money.

94. Ex-soldier, twenty-seven, without funds but hopeful,
hustling worker.

96. Boy tramp, twenty, reformatory record, traveled much in
three years.

114. Brought cattle from Wyoming to Chicago, lost all with
women and drink, still happy.

134. _Study of Employment Agencies and Labor Placement
Problems_, E. H. Koster, August, 1922.

158. _The Unemployed and the Unemployable in Chicago_,
Rupert R. Lewis, December, 1917.

160. Statistics of the Chicago Free Employment offices for
the year ending September 30, 1922.

Comments

Log in to leave a comment.

The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless ManChapter VIII: Work

0%1 min left in chapter