| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880–1930. By Frank Tobias Higbie. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. xvi, 255 pp. Cloth, $44.95, ISBN 0-252-02794-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-07098-4.)

Coming at a time when contingent and part-time work is increasingly the norm for millions of Americans, Frank Tobias Higbie's Indispensable Outcasts offers a penetrating new history of the nation's first large-scale temporary industrial work force. Higbie's book not only analyzes the critical role of seasonal and migratory labor in shaping the emerging corporate economy of the early twentieth century but also demonstrates how the struggles and debates over this work force redefined both community and the rules governing the labor market.

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