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Hermes on Two Wheels

Name: Hermes on Two Wheels
Brand: University Press of America
SKU: 04914673
Price: 53.4 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Kevin Wehr
ISBN: 9780761847939

The Sociology of Bicycle Messengers

Kevin Wehr

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04914673

Publishers University Press of America, September 2009

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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.