Taxis vs. Uber : courts, markets, and technology in Buenos Aires /

"In 2015, Juan M. del Nido went on hundreds of taxi rides in Buenos Aires, conducting ethnographic work on the taxi industry. But by mid-April 2016, Uber launched its platform in Buenos Aires, engulfing drivers, passengers, the press, and greater general public into a frenzied hysteria that inv...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Del Nido, Juan M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Uber (Firm)
Taxicab industry > Argentina > Buenos Aires.
Taxicab drivers > Argentina > Buenos Aires.
Chauffeurs de taxi > Argentine > Buenos Aires.
Taxicab drivers.
Taxicab industry.
Argentina > Buenos Aires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a storm blowing from paradise
  • The terms of engagement
  • An intractable question
  • A most perfect kind of hustling
  • On gladiatorial truths
  • The stranger that stays as such
  • A Copernican phantasmagoria
  • The political on trial
  • The scarlet P.

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