Author: John Richard Felton
Publisher: Iowa State Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Impact of Deregulation, and Privatization
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: B Starr McMullen
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2001-09-12
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780080545516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Several of the papers in this volume are concerned with assessing both the timing and the impacts of deregulation and regulatory reform in the US transportation sector. Of increasing interest is the importance of productivity growth and the role played by new technologies in a more competitive market environment. Four of the papers in this volume deal directly with these issues in the context of motor carriers and railroads, two sectors which have been operating under substantially reduced regulatory constraints for the past twenty years in the US. Although the financial condition of US railroads has improved since 1980, there is still some concern regarding their long run viability as private enterprises. Accordingly, one of the papers considers the potential for further reductions in railroad costs through transcontinental mergers, a controversial issue due to the small number of railroads that remain in the industry.
Author: Nicholas A. Glaskowsky
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael H. Belzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780195128864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 1436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steve Viscelli
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-04-12
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0520962710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage. But it wasn’t always this way. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets--once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history--into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public.