No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job : Amsterdam University Press : 9789463723183 : 9463723188 : 05 May 2022 : 1. The historical perspective on an important topic in current academic and policy debates: mobility poverty and mobility justice. So far, only few historians have dealt with these topics, though, as this book shows, political choices in the past affect workers' commute and job accessibility today. 2. The exploration of company archives that have not been used before to study mobility history. 3. The focus on workers and employers as shaping agents of everyday mobility where previous historiography tends to focus on governments, transport companies, and mobility-related advocacy groups. For working people, the cost of getting to work, in terms of time and expense, is a crucial aspect of daily life. In the twentieth century, people's opportunity to travel increased. This did not, however, apply to everyone. The absence of affordable housing near job locations combined with the lack of sa