Abstract
Taxicabs have been virtually ignored by Canadian historians. This neglect is surprising, considering how large this service looms in academic life. Not only do cab drivers regularly whisk professors off to conferences, but their spirits also haunt university corridors as a bogeyman. Has there been a graduate student or untenured professor in recent years who has not been warned, or feared, that a PhD in the humanities or social sciences qualifies him — or her — only to drive a hack? Cab drivers are a classic instance of "the other," a stereotype against whom intellectuals have long defined their own identities and aspirations. PhDs do not want to "push cab." Yet what does the job actually entail?
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