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Douglas Harper

Good Company

A Tramp Life

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This sociological classic shows how the railroad tramp's status as a deviant changed from frontier itinerant to post settlement vagrant; from class conscious proletariat in the Depression to the damaged post WWII vet. The third edition (with new photos) discusses how today the freights have become the milieu of violent gangs who transport drugs, human traffickers, and serial killers. Beating the odds against increased post 9/11 surveillance are yuppie adventure seekers, young travelers, crust punks and oogles. In the background is the same freight train-unforgiving and lethal-and cultures policed at times by honorable tramps and at times by s… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-317-19795-9
  • EAN: 9781317197959
  • Produktnummer: 20178110
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 236 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 10'406 KB
  • Auflage: 3. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 78 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 78 schwarz-weiße Fotos

Über den Autor


Douglas Harper is a founding member of the International Visual Sociology Association, founded in the late 1980s, and was founding editor of the journal Visual Studies. He has held full-time faculty appointments in several American universities and visiting appointments at the University of Bologna and the University of Amsterdam. He has exhibited his photographs internationally and his documentary, The Longest Journey Begins (2015), is co-directed by Maggie Patterson.

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