What is it about?
This article is a history of the a rank-and-file labor insurrection within the New York City taxi industry in the early 1970s. It emphasizes both the historical time period and the material conditions conducive to that were amenable to such movements.
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Why is it important?
Its importance was to demonstrate the impact of economic conditions in an unskilled working class job. Prior historical studies of taxi drivers have isolated the social actors from their system of remuneration and lack of any union solidarity. This article attempts to put this in a larger perspective.
Perspectives
It was my goal to represent this rank-and-file movement as an important historical event in the history of labor and as part of a larger working class struggle that was prominent during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It also seeks to extrapolate on current labor issues in this later stage of capitalism.
Richard Schlosberg
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This page is a summary of: The New York City Taxi Rank-and-File Coalition: 1971-1977, Labor History, September 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0023656x.2019.1666974.
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