K vývoji a činnosti společenstva pražských autodrožkářů

• Authors: Jan Štemberk

Title variants

EN

Study of the Development and Activities of the Prague Association of Taxi Cab Drivers

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Trade associations, which associated businessmen in their regions, were founded on the trade laws and regulations. Their aim was the unity of interests and their reciprocal advancement. Trade associations were not founded only on the region principle but also on the professional principle. Prague Association of Taxi Cab Drivers was founded in 1912 and represented the first independent association of taxi drivers in the Czech lands. In the 1920s, this organisation became very important and influenced the development of Prague taxi service. The Association negotiated with municipality the prices of the rate. The Association provided cheaper purchase of fuel for its members and was responsible for the installation of telephones at every stand. This thing made the phone booking of the taxi cab possible. The Association was dissolved at the beginning of the 1940s and was converted into the “Central Association of the Transport for Bohemia and Moravia”, which was newly formed due to the changes in the economic live in the first years of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Hospodářské dějiny (Economic History)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 24
• Pages: 138-151

Contributors

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Jan Štemberk

• Historický ústav AV ČR, Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic