Sweatshops on Wheels Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation [Hardcover]

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 Deregulationexposes 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 Wheelsraises crucial questions about the legacy of trucking deregulation in America and casts provocative new light on the issue of government deregulation in general.

1. A New Look at Competitive Forces
2. Two Decades of Decline
3. The Road From Institutional to Market Regulation
4. An Industry Transformed
5. Collective Bargaining Still Makes a Difference
6. Labor Market Failure and the Role of Institutions
7. What if the Rest of the World Looked Like Trucking
8. Deregulation as Public Policy: Competition's Winners and Losers

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 lC8