The big rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream [Audiobook] download free by Steve Viscelli
- Listen audiobook: The big rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
- Author: Steve Viscelli
- Release date: 2016/6/17
- Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780520278127
- Rating: 7.27 of 10
- Votes: 426
- Review by: Edwardo Lilley
- Review rating: 7.36 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/7
- Duration: 3H31M19S in 256 kbps (56.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Musepack, MPEG4, MP3, OGG, WAV, ATRAC, FLAC, WMA (compression TBZ, RPM, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 284
- Includes a PDF summary of 25 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M56S (5 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Labour Economics, Road Transport Industries, Transport Industries, Sociology: Work & Labour, Industrial Relations & Safety, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Buses, Trams & Commercial, Industrial Relations
- Download servers: FreakShare, ZeoSpace, 4Shared, 1337x, Mediafire, Dropbox, Uploaded, Microsoft OneDrive, FileHosting. Compressed in TBZ, RPM, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 29.86 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x20mm
- Weight: 408.23g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Berkerley, United States
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