@book{2009:wehr:hermes_on_,
title = {Hermes on Two Wheels},
year = {2009},
note = {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.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Hamilton Books},
address = {Lanham},
series = {},
volume = {},
author = {Wehr, Kevin}
}