Taxi! [electronic resource] : a social history of the New York City cabdriver / Graham Russell Gao Hodges.
Material type: TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007Description: viii, 225 p. : illOther title: Social history of the New York City cabdriverSubject(s): Taxicab drivers -- New York (State) -- New York -- History | Taxicab drivers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions | Taxicabs -- New York (State) -- New York -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 388.4/13214097471 LOC classification: HD8039.T162 | U636 2007Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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