Wood Carved Shoe
Title
Wood Carved Shoe
Subject
popular culture
stereotype
misrepresentation
Description
Very detailed, hand carved, holes were hand-drilled. Could be used as a match holder – very utilitarian. Sabot is a French word from which sabotage is derived. Wobblies carved wooden shoes to symbolize their disdain for rich captains of industry who didn’t pay their workers a livable wage. Reference: Knights of the Road, Roger Bruns, p. 146-147.
Contributor
Minneapolis Skinny
Format
object
Language
English
Type
still image
Citation
“Wood Carved Shoe,” Hobo Archive, accessed March 13, 2025, http://hoboarchive.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/330.