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Paperback. Zustand: New. In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression. Disguised in old clothes, he hopped freight trains crisscrossing six midwestern states. While undercover, Minehan associated on terms of social equality with several thousand transients, collecting five hundred life histories of the young migrants. The result was a vivid and intimate portrayal of a harrowing existence, one in which young people suffered some of the deadliest blows of the economic disaster. Boy and Girl Tramps of America reveals the poignant experiences of American youth who were sent out on the road by grinding poverty, shattered family relationships, and financially strapped schools that locked their doors. For these young people, danger was a constant companion that could turn deadly in an instant. The book documents the hunger and hardships these youth faced, capturing an appalling spectacle and social problem in America's history before any effort was made to meet the problem on a nationwide basis by the federal government. Boy and Girl Tramps of America is a work unique in its ability to extend beyond statistical analyses to uncover the opinions, ideas, and attitudes of the boxcar boys and girls. Originally published in 1934, it remains highly relevant to the turbulent moments of the twenty-first century. This reprint features an introduction by scholar Susan Honeyman that puts the work into our current context.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Boy and Girl Tramps of America | Thomas Minehan | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2023 | University Press of Mississippi | EAN 9781496843623 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Easy Access System Europe, Mustamäe Tee 50, 10621 TALLINN, ESTLAND, gpsr[dot]requests[at]easproject[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

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Paperback. Zustand: New. In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression. Disguised in old clothes, he hopped freight trains crisscrossing six midwestern states. While undercover, Minehan associated on terms of social equality with several thousand transients, collecting five hundred life histories of the young migrants. The result was a vivid and intimate portrayal of a harrowing existence, one in which young people suffered some of the deadliest blows of the economic disaster. Boy and Girl Tramps of America reveals the poignant experiences of American youth who were sent out on the road by grinding poverty, shattered family relationships, and financially strapped schools that locked their doors. For these young people, danger was a constant companion that could turn deadly in an instant. The book documents the hunger and hardships these youth faced, capturing an appalling spectacle and social problem in America's history before any effort was made to meet the problem on a nationwide basis by the federal government. Boy and Girl Tramps of America is a work unique in its ability to extend beyond statistical analyses to uncover the opinions, ideas, and attitudes of the boxcar boys and girls. Originally published in 1934, it remains highly relevant to the turbulent moments of the twenty-first century. This reprint features an introduction by scholar Susan Honeyman that puts the work into our current context.…

Hardback. Zustand: New. In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression. Disguised in old clothes, he hopped freight trains crisscrossing six midwestern states. While undercover, Minehan associated on terms of social equality with several thousand transients, collecting five hundred life histories of the young migrants. The result was a vivid and intimate portrayal of a harrowing existence, one in which young people suffered some of the deadliest blows of the economic disaster. Boy and Girl Tramps of America reveals the poignant experiences of American youth who were sent out on the road by grinding poverty, shattered family relationships, and financially strapped schools that locked their doors. For these young people, danger was a constant companion that could turn deadly in an instant. The book documents the hunger and hardships these youth faced, capturing an appalling spectacle and social problem in America's history before any effort was made to meet the problem on a nationwide basis by the federal government. Boy and Girl Tramps of America is a work unique in its ability to extend beyond statistical analyses to uncover the opinions, ideas, and attitudes of the boxcar boys and girls. Originally published in 1934, it remains highly relevant to the turbulent moments of the twenty-first century. This reprint features an introduction by scholar Susan Honeyman that puts the work into our current context.…

XVII, 267 S. Einband berieben, bestoßen, fleckig, mit Einrissen und etwas Verlust. Handschriftlicher Besitzereintrag auf fliegendem Vorsatz. Immer wieder etwas fleckig. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100 20 x 14 cm, Leinen mit Kopffarbschnitt.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [somewhat worn copy, with rather severe fading to spine cloth, gilt lettering on both spine and front cover heavily rubbed, one-time owner's signature and date on front endpaper]. (B&W photographs) Classic Depression-era account of "wild boys (and girls) of the road" (to steal the title from the William Wellman-directed film about youthful hoboes that was released the previous year), illustrated with photograph taken by the author, a young sociologist who was then a graduate student at the University of Minnesota. In the early years of the Depression, he began hanging out with unemployed men in the city's mission district (presumably Minneapolis, although he doesn't actually say), and later living "in hobo railroad yard camps or jungles and river shanty-towns, [where] I found mor and more youths and not a few girls." As he got more and more involved, his plan "was to associate with as many homeless persons as possible under conditions of social equality, to experience their life, to record their stories, to ascertain in as scientific a manner as possible their opinions, ideas, and attitudes." At the conclusion of his research, which he conducted on weekend, holidays, and vacations, and more extensively during the summers of 1932 and 1933, he had compiled "a thick dossier full of notes and impressins, 500 life histories of boys and girls I had met on the bum, 1,000 samples of conversations, and over 2,500 opinions, ideas, and attitudes expressed by all classes of transients under all conditions." After beginning to organize all his gathered data in a systematic, scientific manner, however, he came to realize that "to describe their life in statistical terms was not only inadequate, it was untrue. Such a description omitted the most important phases of their lives, their strife against cold, their battle for bread, their struggle to obtain and repair clothing, their hates, their humors, and their loves. An artist -- not a scientist -- was needed to pain what I had seen, record what I had heard. And I was not even an amateur craftsman. Yet for the sake of the homeless thousands of boys and girls, I decided to try." This book was the result.…

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Hardback. Zustand: New. In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression. Disguised in old clothes, he hopped freight trains crisscrossing six midwestern states. While undercover, Minehan associated on terms of social equality with several thousand transients, collecting five hundred life histories of the young migrants. The result was a vivid and intimate portrayal of a harrowing existence, one in which young people suffered some of the deadliest blows of the economic disaster. Boy and Girl Tramps of America reveals the poignant experiences of American youth who were sent out on the road by grinding poverty, shattered family relationships, and financially strapped schools that locked their doors. For these young people, danger was a constant companion that could turn deadly in an instant. The book documents the hunger and hardships these youth faced, capturing an appalling spectacle and social problem in America's history before any effort was made to meet the problem on a nationwide basis by the federal government. Boy and Girl Tramps of America is a work unique in its ability to extend beyond statistical analyses to uncover the opinions, ideas, and attitudes of the boxcar boys and girls. Originally published in 1934, it remains highly relevant to the turbulent moments of the twenty-first century. This reprint features an introduction by scholar Susan Honeyman that puts the work into our current context.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. "Illustrated with Photographs by the Author", 8.25 x 5.5", old red library cloth, 267pp with Glossary, covers very worn, extremities bumped and fraying, EX-LIBRARY with usual markings, pp toned and worn with some finger soiling, edge-chips, and waterstaining to lower margins. SCARCE in any edition (this is a reprint of the Farrar and Rinehart edition).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Pictorial boards (depicting a bindlestiff huddled against the cold with a boxcar in the background). 64pp., illustrated with drawings by Gregory Orloff. Some light foxing to the boards, else a very good plus copy. A book in the Way of Life Series, apparently intended for young people, this takes the form a novella of an orphan boy taking to the road. Attractive and interesting volume. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Pictorial boards (depicting a bindlestiff huddled against the cold with a boxcar in the backgroung). 64pp., illustrated with drawings by Gregory Orloff. Owner namestamp on front and rear pastedowns, a bit soiled and well-read but still a sound very good copy. A book in the Way of Life Series, apparently intended for young people, this takes the form a novella of an orphan boy taking to the road. Attractive and interesting volume.…