Sweatshops on Wheels Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation

Name: Sweatshops on Wheels Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation
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ISBN: 9780195128864

ISBN-10: 0195128869

ISBN-13: 9780195128864

Edition: 2000

Authors: Michael H. Belzer

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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 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…

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List price: $98.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/24/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English




A New Look at Competitive Forces



Two Decades of Decline



The Road From Institutional to Market Regulation



An Industry Transformed



Collective Bargaining Still Makes a Difference



Labor Market Failure and the Role of Institutions



What if the Rest of the World Looked Like Trucking



Deregulation as Public Policy: Competition's Winners and Losers