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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.Description: viii, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 080188554X (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780801885549 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Social history of the New York City cabdriver
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 388.413214097471
LOC classification:
  • HD 8039 H688t 2007
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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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HD 8039 H688t 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000101434

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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