Fred Naiden 284 pages hardcover
While many have written about the New York City subway system, a century
of published books says little about the subway as a workplace. Older
books describe railroad lines and equipment and newer ones transit
unions and building projects. None of this subway literature, however,
portrays the motormen operating the trains and the porters cleaning over
400 stations.
Railroaded describes these jobs, which the author, Fred Naiden,
an award-winning Harvard-trained historian, held in the 1980s before
beginning a successful second career in academia. His academic training
enabled him to make comparisons between transit work today and in the
past, beginning with horsecars and elevated trains.
This is the story of Naiden's tenure as NYCTA employee #4046.
