Hailing Taxi
Author: Frank Lovece
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780133721034
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Taxi!
Author: Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1421437805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy the cabdriver is the real victim of the false promises of Uber and the gig economy. 2007 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Hailed in its first edition as a classic study of New York City's history and people, Graham Russell Gao Hodges's Taxi! is a remarkable evocation of the forgotten history of the taxi driver. This deftly woven narrative captures the spirit of New York City cabdrivers and their hardscrabble struggle to capture a piece of the American dream. From labor unrest and racial strife to ruthless competition and political machinations, Hodges recounts this history through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, and the words of the cabbies themselves. A new preface recalls the author's five years of hacking in New York City in the early 1970s, and a new concluding chapter explores the rise of app-based ridesharing services with the arrival of companies like Uber and Lyft. Sharply criticizing the use of the independent contractor model that is the cornerstone of Uber and the gig economy, Hodges argues that the explosion of for-hire vehicles in Manhattan reversed decades of environmental anti-congestion efforts. He calls for a return to the careful regulations that governed taxicabs for decades and provided a modest yet secure living for cabbies. Whether or not you've ever hailed a cab on Broadway, Taxi! provides a fascinating perspective on New York's most colorful emissaries.
Taxi (English edition)
Author: Khaled Al Khamissi
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9992194316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA best-selling modern masterpiece in the author's home country of Egypt, Taxi consists of fifty-eight fictional monologues with Cairo taxi drivers that have been recreated from the author's own experience, taking the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions as bumpy and noisy as the city's potholed and chaotic streets. Described as an urban sociology, an ethnography, a classic of oral history - and a work of poetry in motion - it tells Herculean tales of the struggle for survival and dignity among Greater Cairo's 80,000 cab drivers.
My Little Yellow Taxi
Author: Stephen T. Johnson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13: 9780152164652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKids must fasten their seatbelts as they prepare, by checking the mirrors, checking the oil, and starting the engine, to take their little yellow taxi for a wild ride, in this vibrant, interactive book that introduces the concept of telling time.
Maxi the Little Taxi
Author: Elizabeth Upton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-03-29
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0545798612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe's little! He's cute! But he's getting all dirty! This warm, charming story perfectly captures all the ups and downs of a busy little taxi's first day on the job! It's Maxi the Taxi's first day of work. What fun it is to zip and zoom all around the town!SPLASH go the mud puddles!PLIPPITY-PLOP drips the ice cream and mustard from sticky little fingers!Soon Maxi becomes so grimy and gooey that no one wants to ride with him.Who will help this dirty little taxi discover what he needs most? It's a smart little boy who takes Maxi for a noisy, tickly bath in the car wash!
The Turned-Around Taxi
Author: Margaret Holland
Publisher: Pages Publishing Group
Published: 1985-11
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780874060256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA confused taxicab mixes up its right and left directions and delivers passengers to the wrong places.
Taxis and private hire vehicles
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2011-07-19
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780215560681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRules governing taxis and private hire vehicles need urgent and wholesale reform. The problems posed by taxis and private hire vehicles (PHVs) operating outside of the district in which they are licensed - the phenomenon called 'cross-border hire' - cannot be solved without new legislation. In this report the Transport Committee puts forward its recommendations for such new legislation: listen to the views of users; keep it simple; keep it local: licensing should remain a local function; permit tighter restrictions on cross border hire; increase the potential for local authorities to work together to create larger licensing districts; and develop
Taxi! Urban Economies and the Social and Transport Impacts of the Taxicab
Author: James Cooper
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1317046684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe taxicab makes a significant contribution to the accessibility of a city, and provides a wide range of services across many different social groups and urban environments. This study considers the roles and functions of the taxi from its origins as the first licensed form of public transport, to the current variations of vehicle type and operation, to predictions for its future development. Also addressed here is the impact which this ubiquitous form of transport has on contemporary urban life, and the analytical tools being used and developed for its licensing and control.
Taxi
Author: Joseph Rodriguez
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Published: 2020-12-22
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781576879313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York City in the late '70s was a collection of villages with its downtown scene, midtown workers, and uptown elegance. It was also a city that was more integrated than ever before or ever would be again. All of the city's humanity met in its streets with layered soundtracks of salsa, rock, disco, reggae, and soon hip-hop booming for all to groove to. But, NYC was also a place of chaos and mayhem. Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy with rampant crime it was the city's drug users, dealers, and pimps and prostitutes who ruled the streets of Manhattan. The grittiness of the city was a beacon and a promise to many outsiders, those who didn't quite fit into any mold, and a vibrant LGBTQ community became the nexus of an underworld of sex workers who liked to party. For a NYC cabbie such as Joseph Rodriguez, the hot spots to pick up fares were clubs like the Hellfire, Mineshaft, The Anvil, The Vault, and Show World. Losing his first camera and lens in a classic '70s New York stabbing and mugging, Rodriguez's wounds healed and he armed himself with a new camera to document what he saw on the job: hookers getting off their shifts, transvestites and S&M partiers doin' it in the back seat or somehow pulling off an unlikely costume change from bondage gear to emerge from the cab clean-cut in an oxford and khakis ready to face unwitting family and friends. A humanist at heart, his photographs speak of the dignity of the city's working class from all the boroughs and those struggling to get by. The Economic Hardship Reporting Project provided funding to support Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977–1987.
Taxis
Author: Allison Lassieur
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780736803656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the inventors, history, early models, major parts, and workings of taxis.
