Taxi!

Graham Russell Gao Hodges. Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. viii + 225 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-8554-9.

Reviewed for H-Urban by Anne E. Leonard, Library, New York City College of Technology

Published by [mailto]H-Urban@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)

The Cabbie in the Collective Imagination and on the Streets

Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution

Christine Rider, ed. Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1920. Two Volumes. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007. 604 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $225.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-313-33501-3.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Stephen Roberts, Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Published by [mailto]H-Albion@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)

Caught in the Machinery

Jamie L. Bronstein. Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 222 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-0008-5.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Bill Luckin, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester

Published by [mailto]H-Albion@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)

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