Comments on: Nomads Love Tents

By: p

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:12:10 +0000

The Wobblies and pre-IWW anarchists/trade unionist history are really interesting. I got interested in them through references in Pynchon’s ‘Against the Day’ and Ken Kesey’s ‘Sometimes a Great Notion’.

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:02:25 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World

This organization had a lot to do with Hobo culture.

http://www.iww.org/en/store/books/kerr

These are good book recommendations even thought I’m plugging my Grandfather, Jack Sheridan, who wrote one of the articles.

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:32:00 +0000

http://www.tolatsga.org/ill.html

This article is pretty dense and may not be what you’re referring to but it’s good history.