Cast Out

Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective

By: A. L. Beier (Editor)

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Paperback | 29 November 2008

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The connections among vagabondage and human labor, mobility, status, and behavior have placed vagrancy at the crossroads of a multitude of political, social, and economic processes. Vagrancy and homelessness have been used to examine a vast array of phenomena, from the migration of labor to socital and governmental responses to poverty through charity, welfare, and prosecution. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is the first book to consider the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied. Cast Out attempts to bridge some of the divides that have discouraged a world history of vagrancy and homelessness. This ambitious collection spans eight centuries, five continents, and several academic disciplines. The essays include discussions of the lives of the underclass, strategies for surviving and escaping poverty, the criminalization of poverty by the state, the rise of welfare and development programs, the relationship between imperial powers and colonized peoples, and the struggle to achieve independence after colonial rule. By juxtaposing these histories, the authors explore vagrancy as a common response to poverty, labor dilocation, and changing social norms, as well as how this strategy changed over time and adapted to regional peculiarities.

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"This impressive collection of essays on vagrancy, homelessness, and poverty has truly global historical dimensions. It covers seven centuries and five continents, has a superb introductory overview, and is comparative social history at its best. It deserves to have a wide readership." Robert Tignor - author of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

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Social & Cultural History Housing & Homelessness General & World History Economics Labour Economics

Vagrancy and homelessness in global and historical perspective	p. 1
"A new serfdom" : labor laws, vagrancy statutes, and labor discipline in England, 1350-1800	p. 35
The neglected soldier as vagrant, revenger, tyrant slayer in early modern England	p. 64
"Takin' it to the streets" : Henry Mayhew and the language of the underclass in mid-nineteenth-century London	p. 88
Vagrant India : famine, poverty, and welfare under colonial rule	p. 117
Vagrancy in Mauritius and the nineteenth-century colonial plantation world	p. 140
Doing favors for street people : official responses to beggars and vagrants in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro	p. 162
Vagabondage and Siberia : disciplinary modernism in Tsarist Russia	p. 184
"Tramps in the making" : the troubling itinerancy of America's news peddlers	p. 209
Between romance and degradation : navigating the meanings of vagrancy in North America, 1870-1940	p. 250
The "travelling native" : vagrancy and colonial control in British East Africa	p. 270
Thought reform : the Chinese Communists and the reeducation of Beijing's beggars, vagrants, and petty thieves	p. 302
Imposing vagrancy legislation in contemporary Papua New Guinea	p. 328
Subversive accommodations : doing homeless in Tokyo's Ueno Park	p. 351
Select bibliography	p. 373
Contributors	p. 383
Index	p. 387
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