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Title: THE BIG RIG
TRUCKING AND THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
By: Steve Viscelli
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0520278127
ISBN 13: 9780520278127
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pub. date: 12 April, 2016
Pages: 288
Description: Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, this book explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it.
Synopsis: Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn't always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking's labor markets - once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history - into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.
Publication: US
Imprint: University of California Press
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