No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job : : The Making of Workers’ Mobility in the Netherlands, 1920-1990 / / Patrick Bek.
For working people, the expenses of going to their jobs, in terms of time and cost, are a crucial aspect of daily life. As economic conditions and mobility systems changed in the twentieth century, this aspect of workers’ lives underwent significant transformations. Historians have only begun to unr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in History, Technology and Society ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Responding to the Transport Mismatch, 1920-1940
- 2 Protesting Bus Regulations during the Depression, 1926-1938
- 3 Mobility Austerity during War and Scarcity, 1940-1947
- 4 Mobility Barriers during Postwar Industrialization, 1947-1970
- 5 Postwar Mobility Practices, 1947-1970
- 6 Disciplining Cyclists and Moped Riders
- 7 Mobilizing Rural and Migrant Workers by Company Bus
- 8 Leaving Workers to their Own Devices during Deindustrialization, 1970-1990
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index