The Man with a Million Names: A Personal Essay on Transit Work

Authors

  • Fred S. Naiden

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v8i2.8405

Keywords:

Railroad Regulation, The Exploitation of Animals, The Knights of Labor, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Eugene Debs

Abstract

This essay is a scholarly personal narrative about transit work, especially the operation of omnibuses, horse cars, trolleys, and trams in New York City in the nineteenth century. The culminating event is the trolley strike of 1895, the longest in New York history, and the theme is the need for solidarity between transit workers and the riding public, and thus for what is now is called union “Bargaining for the Public Good.” In this essay, the author speaks as both a transit worker and an historian. 

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Published

2023-12-24 — Updated on 2024-01-25

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2023)

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Personal Essays

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