Essay #103: Iain McIntyre & Owen Clayton, ‘Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life: T-Bone Slim and the Industrial Workers of the World’

This essay is based on the introductory chapter from a collection edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre entitled The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim (University of Minnesota Press, 2025). Owen Clayton is a Senior Lecturer in English literature at the University of Lincoln in England and the author of Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos: The Literature and Culture of U.S. Transiency, 1890–1940 and Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850–1915. Iain McIntyre is an honorary fellow with the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, a researcher at social change website commonslibrary.org and author of Environmental Blockades: Obstructive Direct Action and the History of the Environmental Movement. Anarchist Essays is brought to you by Loughborough University's Anarchism Research Group and the journal Anarchist Studies. Follow us on Bluesky @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social Our music comes from Them'uns (featuring Yous'uns). Artwork by Sam G.  

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