{"product_id":"hermes-on-two-wheels-the-sociology-of-bicycle-messengers-9780761847939","title":"Hermes on Two Wheels: The Sociology of Bicycle Messengers","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kevin Wehr\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of America\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - Urban\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHermes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of America","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47584123158679,"sku":"9780761847939","price":4954.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780761847939.webp?v=1774954257","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hermes-on-two-wheels-the-sociology-of-bicycle-messengers-9780761847939","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}