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Author Mathew, Biju, 1963-

Title Taxi! : cabs and capitalism in New York City / Biju Mathew.

Publication Info. Ithaca : ILR Press, [2008]
©2008

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 Moore Stacks  HE5614.4.N7 M38 2008    Available  ---
Edition Cornell ed.
Description xiv, 258 pages ; 19 cm.
Series Cornell paperbacks
Cornell paperbacks.
Note First published: New York : New Press, 2005.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
Contents Prologue: The distance between two victories -- Roots of victory : the taxi strikes of 1998 -- Horse hiring : abolition and return -- The age of greed, or, What's neoliberalism got to do with it? -- The reinvention of the yellow cab -- Punish and discipline : race in the new urban space -- The borders of globalization : negotiating the metropolis -- Imperial amnesia -- Epilogue: Tracking taxis, worker autonomy, and new labor strategies.
Subject Taxicabs -- New York (State) -- New York.
Taxicabs.
New York (State) -- New York.
Taxicab drivers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York.
Taxicab drivers -- Labor unions.
Strikes and lockouts -- Transport workers -- New York (State) -- New York.
Strikes and lockouts -- Transport workers.
ISBN 9780801474392 paperback alkaline paper
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