Fred S Naiden

Railroaded

A Motorman's Story of the New York City Subway. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 286 Seiten
ISBN 1978844093
EAN 9781978844094
Veröffentlicht 14. April 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Rutgers University Press
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Beschreibung

While many have written about the New York City subway system, a century of published books​ says little about the subway as a workplace. Older books describe railroad lines and equipment ​and new​er ones transit unions and building projects. None of this subway literature, however, portrays the motormen operating the trains and the porters cleaning over 400 stations. Railroaded describes these jobs, which ​the author, Fred Naiden, an award-winning Harvard-trained historian, held in the ​1980s before beginning a successful second career in academia. ​His academic training enabled him to make comparisons between transit work today and in the past, beginning with horsecars and elevated trains.

This is the story of ​N​aiden's ​t​enure as NYCTA employee #4046.

Portrait

Fred S. Naiden is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great (Oxford, 2018). He is formerly employee #4046, New York City Transit Authority.