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245 10 a| Taxi!h| [electronic resource] :b| a social history of the New York City cabdriver /c| Graham Russell Gao Hodges.;

246 30 a| Social history of the New York City cabdriver;

250 a| Revised edition.;

260 a| Baltimore :b| Johns Hopkins University Press,c| 2020.;

300 a| xx, 250 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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

Author/creator	Hodges, Graham Russell, 1946-
Format	Electronic
Edition	Revised edition.
Publication Info	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Description	xx, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Taxicab drivers--New York (State). --New York. --History. Taxicab drivers--New York (State). --New York. --Social conditions. Taxicabs--New York (State). --New York. --History. Ridesharing--New York (State). --New York.

Portion of title	Social history of the New York City cabdriver
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.
Abstract	"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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019031148
ISBN	9781421437798 (hardcover)
ISBN	(ebook)

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