| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Frank Tobias Higbie. Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880–1930. (The Working Class in American History.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 255. Cloth $44.95, paper $18.95.

Scholars have long been aware that marketplace dynamics connected farms and Main Streets across the Midwest, but the space of that market, and the people who worked within it, have remained peripheral to historians' concerns. Frank Tobias Higbie's book is a significant effort to examine the realm between the town and farm and the workers within it. Higbie's work surpasses previous work on tramps and hobos that relegated them to a subculture in the shadows of settled society. Rather he explores the structure and dynamics of their in-between world, cuts through the middle-class assumptions employed to represent their experiences, and, through an examination of political "battles" between workers and townsmen, examines their central role in midwestern life.

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