Hermes on Two Wheels: The Sociology of Bicycle Messengers Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Hermes on Two Wheels: The Sociology of Bicycle Messengers Book

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.Read More

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  • 0761847936
  • 9780761847939
  • Kevin Wehr
  • 28 October 2009
  • University Press of America
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 142
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