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Hermes on Two Wheels shows the dynamic world of the bicycle messenger through a sociological lens, based on a five-year participant observation study. Beginning with the experiences of messengers themselves and moving to describe the structural settings of those experiences, the research shows how messengers work within a political-economic system that devalues semi-skilled labor and strips people of emotional fulfillment. The voluntary risk-taking of messengers becomes a means of achieving such emotional fulfillment as well as making a living, while their stylistic expressions pay dividends in cultural scrip rather than money. Through their work, messengers help to reproduce and maintain the structures of society while also constructing a vibrant, rebellious, politicized subculture that has come to represent the new urban hipster, an image continually under threat of co-optation.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Plný název: Hermes on Two Wheels
• Podnázev: The Sociology of Bicycle Messengers
• Autor: Kevin Wehr
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 142
• EAN: 9780761847939
• ISBN: 0761847936
• ID: 04914673
• Nakladatelství: University Press of America
• Hmotnost: 218 g
• Rozměry: 233 × 155 × 11 mm
• Datum vydání: 28. September 2009

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