Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking DeregulationLong 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. |
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Contents
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Collective Bargaining Still Makes a Difference | 107 |
Labor Market Failure and the Role of Institutions | 137 |
What If the Rest of the World Looked Like Trucking? | 157 |
Deregulation as Public Policy Competitions Winners and Losers | 175 |
Appendix | 193 |
Glossary | 201 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 243 |
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| Title | Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation |
| Authors | Michael H. Belzer, Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations and Teaches Industrial Relations Michael H Belzer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0195128869, 9780195128864 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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