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Underground Woman : My Four Years As a New York City Subway Conductor Labor and Social Change
author
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Swerdlow, Marian.
publisher
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Temple University Press
isbn10 | asin
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1566396107
print isbn13
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9781566396103
ebook isbn13
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9780585365565
language
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English
subject
Subways--New York (N.Y.) , Swerdlow, Marian,--1949- , Railroad conductors--New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
publication date
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1998
lcc
:
HE4491.N65S94 1998eb
ddc
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388.4/28/092
subject
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Subways--New York (N.Y.) , Swerdlow, Marian,--1949- , Railroad conductors--New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
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Underground Woman
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In the series Labor and Social Change, edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni
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Underground Woman
My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor
Marian Swerdlow
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Dedicated to Steve and in memory of Mark
Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright 1998 by Temple University. All rights reserved Published 1998 Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984
TEXT DESIGN: Judith Martin Waterman
CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Swerdlow, Marian, 1949 Underground woman : my four years as a New York City subway conductor / Marian Swerdlow. p. cm. ISBN 1-56639-609-3 (alk. paper). ISBN 1-56639-610-7 (alk. paper) 1. SubwaysNew York (N.Y.) 2. Swerdlow, Marian, 1949 3. Railroad conductorsNew York (N.Y.)Biography. I. Title. HE4491.N65S94 1998 388.4'28'092dc21 [B] 97-45187 CIP
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Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
1
More Than Door Openers
7
Woodlawn
20
Crew Room Cowboys
38
Health and Safety
59
Greatness
71
Hell on Wheels
90
Rejection
101
Lackluster
119
Greater Greatness
128
Miscellaneous
139
Coworkers
147
Characters and Cronies
169
Riders and Conductors
181
Transit Worker Wit and Wisdom
193
Why I Left
212
The More Things Change...
231
Afterword
241
Glossary
251
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Acknowledgments
Many people encouraged me to write a book about my experiences working on the New York subways. Pierre Bouvier and Al Swerdlow stand out in my mind.
Steve Downs, Marjorie George, Alan Lefkowitz, Charlie Post, Al and Bertha Swerdlow, and Josephine Teng read the manuscript, in full or part, and made helpful suggestions. I am deeply grateful to them. Joanne Foti contributed her whimsical subway map, grappling with the concept of "Brooklyn Bridge" as a station underground instead of a span over water. I also specially appreciate the efforts of Michael Ames, acquisitions editor at Temple University Press, who discerned promise in the initial eight-hundred-page manuscript and nudged me along as I trimmed and shaped it into its current form.
I also thank the many friends who helped me survive my four years in transit. Although I cannot name them all, I am especially indebted to Ruth and Chuck Hoffman, Alan Lefkowitz, Jim Murphy, Anne Sherry, Anita Waters, and the late Jessica Atlas.
Steve Downs gave me indispensable help in the preparation of the Afterword to this book.
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Drawn by Joanne Foti
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Introduction
I was born in the South Bronx, in 1949. My family lived there until we moved to the northeast part of the same borough when I was almost ten years old. I attended city public schools and graduated from the High School of Music and Art.
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