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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Higbie, Frank Tobias. "Indispensable Outcasts: Seasonal Laborers and Community in the Upper Midwest, 1880-1930," Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January 2000.
“Indispensable Outcasts: Seasonal Laborers and Community in the Upper Midwest, 1880-1930” examines the experiences of male seasonal laborers, and the social discourse on unemployment and transient men during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. U.S.-born and immigrant men worked in various seasonal industries, including timber, agriculture and railroad construction and maintenance. The dissertation analyzes the social policy and the cultural world of seasonal laborers, including their varied notions of appropriate manly behavior, their living and working conditions, and their organized and unorganized forms of resistance.
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