Taxi! : a social history of the New York City cabdriver / Graham Russell Gao Hodges.

Author
Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Description
viii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    "Taxi! is the first book-length history of New York City cabdrivers and the community they compose. From labor unrest and racial strife among cabbies to ruthless competition and political machinations, this narrative captures the people - lower-class immigrants for the most part - and their hardscrabble struggle to capture a piece of the American dream. Graham Russell Gao Hodges tells their tale through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, social science research, and the words of the cabbies themselves."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-211) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • The creation of the taxi man, 1907-1920
    • Hack men in the jazz age, 1920-1930
    • The search for order during the Depression, 1930-1940
    • Prosperity during wartime, 1940-1950
    • The creation of the classic cabby, 1950-1960
    • Unionization and its discontents, 1960-1980
    • The lease driver and proletarian, 1980-2005
    • Epilogue
    • Appendix. Data table
    • Notes
    • Essay on sources
    • Index.
    Other title(s)
    Social history of the New York City cabdriver
    ISBN
    • 080188554X ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780801885549 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2006019856
    OCLC
    70158432
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