Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation by Michael H.

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In 1977 the government began to loosen regulations on the trucking industry, expecting that increased competition would drive down companies' shipping costs. This text explores trucking deregulation, discussing its effects on the industry and the unintended consequences of deregulation.

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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 ofpre-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 aformer 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.

Author Biography

Michael H. Belzer, a nationally-known expert on the trucking industry, is Associate Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Graduate Program in Industrial Relations at at Wayne State University and an assistant research scientist at the University of Michigan Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. He is currently conducting two major government-funded research programs on truck safety. Prior to earning his Ph.D. at Cornell'sSchool of Industrial and Labor Relations, he spent eight years as a Teamster driving a tank truck over-the-road.

Table of Contents

1: A New Look at Competitive Forces2: Two Decades of Decline3: The Road From Institutional to Market Regulation4: An Industry Transformed5: Collective Bargaining Still Makes a Difference6: Labor Market Failure and the Role of Institutions7: What if the Rest of the World Looked Like Trucking8: Deregulation as Public Policy: Competition's Winners and Losers

Review

"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."-"Sweatshops on Wheels," U.S. News and World Report"Conditions are so poor and the pay system so unfair that long-haul companies compete with the fast-food industry for workers. Most long-haul carriers experience 100% annual driver turnover. The case for reform is made exhaustively [in] Sweatshops on Wheels."-- The Washington Post "The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line"The cabs of 18-wheelers have become the sweatshops of the new millennium, with some truckers toiling up to 95 hours per week for what amounts to barely more than the minimum wage. [This book] is eye-opening in its appraisal of what the trucking industry has become."- Atlanta Journal-Constitution"The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line"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."-"Sweatshops on Wheels," U.S. News and World Report"Conditions are so poor and the pay system so unfair that long-haul companies compete with the fast-food industry for workers. Most long-haul carriers experience 100% annual driver turnover. The case for reform is made exhaustively [in] Sweatshops on Wheels."-- The Washington Post"The cabs of 18-wheelers have become the sweatshops of the new millennium, with some truckers toiling up to 95 hours per week for what amounts to barely more than the minimum wage. [This book] is eye-opening in its appraisal of what the trucking industry has become."-Atlanta Journal-Constitution"The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line

Long Description

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 ofpre-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, Sweatshopson 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.

Review Text

"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."-"Sweatshops on Wheels," U.S. News and World Report"Conditions are so poor and the pay system so unfair that long-haul companies compete with the fast-food industry for workers. Most long-haul carriers experience 100% annual driver turnover. The case for reform is made exhaustively [in] Sweatshops on Wheels."-- The Washington Post "The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line"The cabs of 18-wheelers have become the sweatshops of the new millennium, with some truckers toiling up to 95 hours per week for what amounts to barely more than the minimum wage. [This book] is eye-opening in its appraisal of what the trucking industry has become."- Atlanta Journal-Constitution"The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line"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."-"Sweatshops on Wheels," U.S. News and World Report"Conditions are so poor and the pay system so unfair that long-haul companies compete with the fast-food industry for workers. Most long-haul carriers experience 100% annual driver turnover. The case for reform is made exhaustively [in] Sweatshops on Wheels."-- The Washington Post"The cabs of 18-wheelers have become the sweatshops of the new millennium, with some truckers toiling up to 95 hours per week for what amounts to barely more than the minimum wage. [This book] is eye-opening in its appraisal of what the trucking industry has become."-Atlanta Journal-Constitution"The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line

Review Quote

"The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state towhich the American trucking industry has fallen."--Land Line

Details ISBN0195128869 Author Michael H. Belzer Short Title SWEATSHOPS ON WHEELS Language English ISBN-10 0195128869 ISBN-13 9780195128864 Media Book Format Hardcover Subtitle Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation Illustrations tables and figures Position Assistant Research Scientist, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation Assistant Research Scientist, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Michigan DOI 10.1604/9780195128864 UK Release Date 2000-08-10 AU Release Date 2000-08-10 NZ Release Date 2000-08-10 US Release Date 2000-08-10 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Year 2000 Publication Date 2000-08-10 DEWEY 388.3240973 Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 272 We've got this

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