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
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.
"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
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