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Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hours - and sometimes in as little as fifteen minutes - these couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in and out of dense traffic, dodging (or somet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kidder, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lowell), 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [N.Y.] : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Bicycle messengers > United States > Social conditions.
Sociology, Urban > United States.
Messagers à bicyclette > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Sociologie urbaine > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
Sociology, Urban
Fahrradkurier
Stadtsoziologie
Kultursoziologie
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : the lure of delivery
  • Chapter 1. The job
  • Chapter 2. The lifestyle
  • Chapter 3. Men's work and dirty work
  • Chapter 4. Playing in traffic
  • Chapter 5. The deep play of alleycats
  • Chapter 6. The affective appropriation of space
  • Chapter 7. The meaning of messenger style
  • Conclusion : The politics of appropriation
  • Appendix A. Theoretical outline
  • Appendix B. Expanded discussion of method
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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