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This 10 page paper looks at the history of the New York City transportation system, its workers, and most prominently its unions. The history of the TWU is explored in depth. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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locus of organization moved from the workplace and into communities (Fisher, 1992). It moved into geographic communities and neighborhoods like the Hispanic community or the lesbian community, and this seems
to have changed the prior focus on union or labor-based organizing (1992). Others do not agree, suggesting that unions had acquired strength and made gains after W.W.II. Certainly, in
looking at New Yorks TWU Local 100, there had been substantial activity, culminating in a significant strike in 1966. But others contend that the TWU actually suffered after the war
as support form the feds and others split the movement and moved it towards conservatism (1992). It is hard to argue that fact that unionization has declined in recent years
in general. Still, it is hard to forget the efforts made by the Transit Workers Union in New York City between 1933 and 1966. First, it is imprint to note
that New York depended on its coveted transportation system. II. History of Transportation in New York City The social experience of New Yorks rapid transit passengers was part of
an overall phenomenon which occurred in urban America during the late part of the nineteenth century (Hood, 1996). The emergence of new venues where large numbers of diverse peoples mixed
regularly may be attributed to the subway phenomenon (1996). On thing which distinguished New York rapid transit from other things such as department stores, theaters, and ballparks was that the
elevated trains and the subways were an unavoidable part of daily life (1996). With the exception of the wealthy who could afford private modes of transportation and those who could
walk to work, most New Yorkers used mass transit as early as the 1890s (1996). The opening of New Yorks first subway in 1904 made rapid transit even more significant
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