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Wing

Movements and Hard Times

Mass unemployment, radical organizing on the freights, and self-help institutions like Hobo College.

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01

The Great Depression

When a new generation took to the freights.

02

The IWW and the rails

Boxcars as organizing space.

03

Hobo College

James Eads How, the IBWA, and mutual aid.

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