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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taxicab drivers--New York (State)--New York--History.

Taxicab drivers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Author Graham Hodges, who as a younger man worked as a cabby, tells a social and labor history of taxicabs in New York City. This revised edition features a new preface and a new last chapter that covers the rise of ridesharing companies, which the author criticizes. The rise of ridesharing (Uber and Lyft) is what precipitated the reissuing the book in a new edition"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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, 1950-1980

Unionization and its discontents, 1960-1980

The lease driver and proletarian, 1980-2006

The Uber era, 2010-2019.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-4214-3780-5

OCLC:

1142301051