Taxi! : a social history of the New York City cabdriver
"Taxi! is the first book-length history of New York City cabdrivers and the community they compose. From labor unrest and racial strife among cabbies to ruthless competition and political machinations, this narrative captures the people - lower-class immigrants for the most part - and their hardscrabble struggle to capture a piece of the American dream. Graham Russell Gao Hodges tells their tale through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, social science research, and the words of the cabbies themselves."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2007
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007
History
viii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801885549, 080188554X
70158432
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