In the Floating Army book.
In the Floating Army book.
In the Floating Army: F. C. Mills on Itinerant Life in California, 1914. By Gregory R. Woirol. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. oceedings{Schneider1993InTF, title {In the Floating Army: F. 95, ISBN 0-252-01800-1. }, author {John C. Schneider}, year {1993} }. John C. Schneider.
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WOIROL, Gregory . OIROL, Gregory R. American, b. 1948. Publications: In the Floating Army: . Mills on Itinerant Labor in California, 1914, 1992; Technological Unemployment and Structural Unemployment Debates, 1996
WOIROL, Gregory . Career: Whittier College, Whittier, CA, instructor, 1976-80, assistant professor, 1980-83, associate professor, 1983-86, professor of economics, 1986-, department head, 1984-87, 1993, associate academic dean of liberal education, 1986-90. Mills on Itinerant Labor in California, 1914, 1992; Technological Unemployment and Structural Unemployment Debates, 1996. Contributor to periodicals.
Woirol excerpts from the journal of one . Mills, who in 1914 spent his summer living as a hobo in Central California
Woirol excerpts from the journal of one . Mills, who in 1914 spent his summer living as a hobo in Central California. This wasn't done to spy on people (indeed, he was recognized despite his ratty disguise) but to gather information on the lifestyle for the California Commission on Immigration and Housing. He undertook this job soon after riots broke out in Wheatland, so itinerant laborers were a subject of great interest and scrutiny. Mills worked as an orange packer in Lindsay and with lumber up in the mountains at Hume, and did other odd jobs in between. In the Floating Army: . Mills on Itinerant Life in California, 1914 (Urbana and Chicago, 1992), 97. Railroad companies counted 156,390 trespassers killed or injured between 1888 and 1905. If anything, official statistics probably underestimated the number of casualties. Higbie, Indispensable Outcasts, 52. 50. Perkins, Hayes, Here and There: An Itinerant Worker in the Pacific Northwest, 1898, Oregon Historical Quarterly 102 (2001): 363, 365. 51. London, The Road, 40. 52. Perkins, Here and There, 370–71 and 361.
Woirol, Gregory R. 1992. In the Floating Army, . Mills on Itinerant Life in California, 1914, Univ. The Other Half: The Autobiography of a Tramp, New York: Arden Book Company, 307 pages with illustrations. It traced its roots back to before there really was mechanized harvesting going on and today we sometimes use it about folks who catch on the fly (a moving train) w/little gear--they tend to roll up what personal gear they have in a blanket/sleeping bag like a burrito, tie off each end and then fashion a sling.
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In the Floating Army chronicles the awakening of social consciousness in a well-educated urban progressive and offers one of the most detailed . In the Floating Army : F.