Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation

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Michael H. Belzer (Assistant Research Scientist, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Assistant Research Scientist, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Michigan)

Sweatshops on Wheels

Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation

Michael H. Belzer (Assistant Research Scientist, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Assistant Research Scientist, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Michigan)

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Oxford University Press Inc
01 September 2000

Business & management; Road transport & haulage trades

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.

By: Michael H. Belzer (Assistant Research Scientist Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations Assistant Research Scientist Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations University of Michigan)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 245mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780195128864
ISBN 10: 0195128869
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 September 2000
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, he spent eight years as a Teamster driving a tank truck over-the-road.

Reviews for Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation

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. - AtlantaJournal-Constitution The first credible cry in the wilderness describing the pitiful state to which the American trucking industry has fallen. --Land Line