The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man

by Nels Anderson

FOOTNOTES:

[25] One Thousand Homeless Men, p. 209.

[26] Dearborn Independent, March 18, 1922.

[27] The seasonal worker may be regarded also as the upper-class hobo.

[28] The first three types of homeless men are described in this chapter; the last two types are considered in chapter vii.

CHAPTER VII
THE HOME GUARD AND THE BUM

The seasonal worker, the hobo, and the tramp are migratory types; the home guard and the bum are relatively stationary. The home guard, like the hobo, is a casual laborer, but he works, often only by the day, now at one and again at another of the multitude of unskilled jobs in the city. The bum, like the tramp, is unwilling to work and lives by begging and petty thieving.