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Taxi! - A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver (Paperback)
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Taxi! - A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 510
You Save R93 (14%)
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New York City cabdrivers hold a unique place in American culture
writ large. Cabbies proverbially counsel, console, and confound.
Sometimes perceived as the key to street-level opinion or
mysterious savants who don't speak much English, the hackers who
move New Yorkers have been integral to the city's growth and
culture since the mid-nineteenth century when they first began
shuttling residents, workers, and visitors in horse-drawn
carriages. Their importance grew with the introduction of
gasoline-powered cars early last century and continues to the
present day, when more than 12,000 licensed yellow cabs operate in
Manhattan alone. 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 deftly woven narrative captures the
people-lower-class immigrants, for the most part-and their struggle
to attain a piece of the American dream. Hodges tells their tale
through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, social science
research, and the words of the cabbies themselves. Taxi! provides a
new perspective on New York's most colorful emissaries.
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