Taxi! a social history of the New York City cabdriver / [electronic resource] :
Social history of the New York City cabdriver
Graham Russell Gao Hodges.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- viii, 225 p. : ill.
Includes 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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