A white woman in a mostly minority male workplace, Swerdlow helped edit a newsletter, Hell on Wheels, and tried to organize for better working conditions, confronting the Kafkaesque Transit Authority... This description may be from another edition of this product.
If you really want to understand the working conditions of those who recently struck, shutting down NYC for days, this is your book. The subway subculture is mostly invisible to the riders and this is the only book I know of that reveals it. My only objection is to some repetitiveness and disorganization, plus it would have explained a lot to have known that the authors father had worked on trains and died in an accident.
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