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Author's Note to Paperback Edition ix
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
The People's Carriages 5
An Exceptionally Intelligent Class of Men 28
Things Were Reduced to a System 43
The Sugar Railroad 61
The Trolley Habit 78
We Never Used to be in Such a Hurry 98
I Believe in Using Heroic Methods 116
Fitzgerald's Rebellion 131
We Walk 147
The Union Railroad is Our Supreme Court 161
Conclusion: Another Dorr War 172
Notes 183
Index 233
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Gabriel Banyay
reviewed Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line on November 21, 2014
Trolley Wars
I especially enjoyed this history of mass transit in Providence, RI because I live in the city and because my neighborhood is a"street car suburb' made possible by electrified trolleys in the 1920s. However, there is much more to recommend for general readers her. Malloy sympathetically weaves ethnicity, class, politics, economics and culture into a surprisingly rich story of social transformation from a unified Yankee autocracy in the 1860s to the much more diverse and contentious self-government that persists today.
Malloy is a great storyteller and introduces a broad cast of characters into a short and sweeping account rich in conflict and surprising alliances. It's hard to imagine middle class passengers supporting striking bus drivers today, or a city mayor protecting insurrectionary workers in the streets.
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