Trolley Wars Streetcar Workers on the Line

Name: Trolley Wars Streetcar Workers on the Line
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ISBN: 9781584656302

ISBN-10: 1584656301

ISBN-13: 9781584656302

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Authors: Scott Molloy

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American cities' rapid expansion after the Civil War fueled the growth of organized transportation systems-- omnibuses, horsecar, and, later, electric streetcars. Trolley Wars traces the social dynamics of these first mass-transportation systems as they developed in Rhode Island, the most urbanized state in Gilded Age America. Covering years of rapid growth, Scott Molloy focuses on the laborers who operated the transit system, the changing ownership of the streetcar lines, and the strong bond that grew between trolley crews and passengers--a bond that sustained a powerful political alliance during the bitter "car wars" of 1902. In lucid prose based on scrupulous research, Molloy dissects…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
Publication date: 2/21/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Scott Molloy is Professor of Labor and Industrial Relations at the Labor Research Center, University of Rhode Island. He has published widely and won many teaching awards, including RI Professor of the Year, 2004-2005.



Author's Note to Paperback Edition


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The People's Carriages



An Exceptionally Intelligent Class of Men



Things Were Reduced to a System



The Sugar Railroad



The Trolley Habit



We Never Used to be in Such a Hurry



I Believe in Using Heroic Methods



Fitzgerald's Rebellion



We Walk



The Union Railroad is Our Supreme Court


Conclusion: Another Dorr War


Notes


Index