Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation

ISBN-13: 9780195128864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 272 str.

Michael H. Belzer

Opis

Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today.

Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes the dark side of government deregulation in America's interstate trucking industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time during the last four decades.

Written by a former long-haul trucker who now teaches industrial relations at Wayne State University, Sweatshops on Wheels raises crucial questions about the legacy of trucking deregulation in America and casts provocative new light on the issue of government deregulation in general.

Recenzje

Is low pay in the trucking industry making the nation's roads unsafe ? With the U.S. economy booming and the demand for drivers mounting, why haven't working conditions for truckers improved? This book argues that trucking embodies the dark side of the new economy.

O autorze

Michael H. Belzer is Associate Director of the University of Michigan Trucking Industry Program and Adjunct Professor in the University of Michigan School of Business. He was a professional truck driver for ten years.