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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.Description: viii, 225 p. : illOther title:
  • Social history of the New York City cabdriver
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 388.4/13214097471 22
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.T162 U636 2007eb
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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