Taxi!
Subtitle: cabs and capitalism in New York City
By: Biju Mathew.
Edition: Cornell ed.
Series: Cornell paperbacks
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780801474392
Subjects: Taxicabs -- New York (State) -- New York; Taxicab drivers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York; Strikes and lockouts -- Transport workers -- New York (State) -- New York
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Roots of victory : the taxi strikes of 1998; title: Horse hiring : abolition and return; title: The age of greed, or, What's neoliberalism got to do with it?; title: The reinvention of the yellow cab; title: Punish and discipline : race in the new urban space; title: The borders of globalization : negotiating the metropolis; title: Imperial amnesia.