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Transit Talk - New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories (Paperback, New)
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Transit Talk - New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories (Paperback, New)
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"Robert Snyder has compiled the tales and the war stories, sketches
of the varied jobs and those who work on the buses and trains of
the New York city mass transit system. These are the engrossing
stories of the invisible workers-those who labor day and night to
ensure a safe trip for the five million who ride the subways and
buses of the city. Ever present, the workers have seen it all, and
regale us with their experiences. It is an enjoyable read renewing
our appreciation and respect for those who tend the transit
systems."-New York History New York City may seem to be a place
where everyone is a stranger, yet transit workers provide a human
presence on a late-night bus or an empty subway platform. Few of us
give any thought to these invisible workers-until something goes
wrong. Transit Talk takes readers into the world of MTA New York
City Transit employees, as they describe their lives and work, from
the most visible subway conductor to the seemingly invisible
mechanic. There are nearly 44,000 transit workers like those you
will meet in Transit Talk, and every day they help five million of
us travel to work, to school, to weddings, to funerals, to
hospitals, to vacations. These workers labor daily on subway tracks
inches from high-voltage powerlines, risking their lives for
passengers they'll never know. The city can feel large and
fragmented, but the transportation system and its workers create
common threads in the lives of all New Yorkers, threads we take for
granted. Nearly one hundred transit workers were interviewed for
Transit Talk. These are the people who keep the country's largest
transit system up and running. Together, their stories create a
human tableau of life and labor in the city within a city that is
the MTA New York City Transit. Transit workers find satisfaction in
fixing a damaged subway car, gain wisdom from mastering a dangerous
workplace, nurse emotional wounds from tending to someone injured
in an accident, battle frustration from difficulties with
management, and express satisfaction when reflecting on a
productive career. They tell of how years spent in the same shop
create bonds between workers. They talk of the burden of laboring
in a twenty-four-hour system with night shifts and weekend workdays
that take them away from families. You'll hear joyous anecdotes of
workers delivering babies in a subway car as well as painful tales
of informing next-of-kin of a death on the tracks. The stories
weave together vignettes about race, unions, and the relations
between men and women in the transit workforce. The memories
recorded here cover the last fifty years of the twentieth century,
a time when the transit system acquired many of the characteristics
of contemporary modern American industry. Robert W. Snyder, a
lifelong bus and subway rider and the grandson of a transit worker,
is the author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular
Culture in New York and coauthor of Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan
Artists and Their New York. He lives with his wife and two children
in Manhattan, where he is the editor of Media Studies Journal.
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