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The author of the essay, a former long-haul trucker, discusses the negative effects of deregulation of the trucking industry in the United States. He argues that truckers have worked longer hours and earned less since deregulation, and that this has had a negative effect on the industry as a whole. The author also discusses the negative effects of government deregulation on other industries, and argues that this is a problem that needs to be addressed.
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.
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