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Transit Talk: New Yorks Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories: By Robert ...
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780813525778
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Transportation
- Publication Name
- Transit Talk : New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Subject
- Public Transportation, General, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 198 Pages
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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'U 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. 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'U hear painful tales of informing next-of-kin of a death on the tracks as well as joyous anecdotes of workers delivering a baby in a subway car.
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
0813525772
ISBN-13
9780813525778
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1147196
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Transit Talk : New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Public Transportation, General, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Transportation
Number of Pages
198 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
98-007049
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Hd8039
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
1998
Dewey Decimal
331.7/61388/09747
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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