Robert W Snyder

Transit Talk

New Yorks Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories

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Produktbeschreibung

An insider's look at the work and lives of New York City transit workers, told in their own words. The text blends anecdotes, happy memories and painful tales; weaving together vignettes about race, unions and gender within the workforce of the last 50 years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 138mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780813525778
• ISBN-10: 0813525772
• Artikelnr.: 21649256

Autorenporträt

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.  

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Notes from Underground
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 War Stories
2 Getting on Board
3 Stations and Fares
4 Operating Trains
5 Six Inches from Death
6 Law and Order
7 Driving Buses
8 Shops and Yards
9 Matters of Color
10 Work, Women, and Men
11 Union Talk
12 Moving into Management 
13 Generations
14 Into the Future
Notes
Index