On 10 December 2021, Patrick Bek successfully defended his PhD thesis called

No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job: The Making of Workers’ Mobility in the Netherlands, 1920-1990

The dissertation is available in the TUE repository.

 

Table of contents:

Acknowledgements 5
Figures 9
Introduction 11
1 Responding to the Transport Mismatch, 1920-1940 35
2 Protesting Bus Regulations during the Depression, 1926-1938 59
3 Mobility Austerity during War and Scarcity, 1940-1947 71
4 Mobility Barriers during Postwar Industrialization, 1947-1970 89
5 Postwar Mobility Practices, 1947-1970 99
6 Disciplining Cyclists and Moped Riders 119
7 Mobilizing Rural and Migrant Workers by Company Bus 141
8 Leaving Workers to their Own Devices during
Conclusion 183
Bibliography 191
Archival Collections 191
Online Collections 192
Newspaper and Journal Articles 192
Published Documentation of Government and Non-Governmental
Organizations 196
Scholarly Publications 198