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Sweatshops on Wheels
Author | : Michael H. Belzer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0195128869 |
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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.
Braking the Special Interests
Author | : Dorothy Robyn |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0226723283 |
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In 1980 Congress voted to eliminate the federal system of protective regulation over the powerful trucking industry, despite fierce opposition. This upset marked a rare example in American politics of diffuse public interests winning out over powerful economic lobbies. In Braking the Special Interests Dorothy Robyn draws upon firsthand observations of formal proceedings and behind-the-scenes maneuverings to illuminate the role of political strategy in the landmark trucking battle. Robyn focuses her analysis on four elements of strategy responsible for the deregulator's victory—elements that are essential, she argues, to any successful policy battle against entrenched special interests: the effective use of economic data and analysis to make a strong case for the merits of reform; the formation and management of a diverse lobbying coalition of firms and interest groups; presidential bargaining to gain political leverage; and transition schemes to reduce uncertainty and cushion the blow to losers. Drawing on political and economic theory, Braking the Special Interests is an immensely rich and readable study of political strategy and skill, with general insights relevant to current political battles surrounding trade, agriculture, and tax policies. Robyn's interdisciplinary work will be of great value to scholars and practitioners of politics, economics, and public policy.
Trucking Industry Deregulation
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Trucking |
ISBN | : UCAL:B5176555 |
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Impact of Deregulation of the Trucking Industry on Small Businesses and Small Truck Owner operators
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Impact of Deregulation, and Privatization |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Small business |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105110730897 |
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The Economic Effects of Surface Freight Deregulation
Author | : Clifford Winston,Thomas M. Corsi,Curtis M. Grimm,Carol A. Evans |
Publsiher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0815714386 |
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For close to 100 years, America's surface freight industries, primarily rail and trucking, operated under the protective wing of the U.S. government. In 1980 Congress, finding vast inefficiencies in the two industries, substantially deregulated both, opening them at last to market competition. Deregulation has brought with it many changes—for firms within the industries, for their labor force, and for shippers and their customers. Clifford Winston, Thomas M. Corsi, Curtis M. Grimm, and Carol A Evans provide a comprehensive evaluation of the effect of the deregulation legislation on the rail and trucking industries. According to the authors, deregulation has made substantial progress in solving the two most vexing problems of the surface freight transportation industry—excessive rates in the trucking industry and insufficient returns on investment in the rail industry. Competition and efficiency have returned to both industries, and although the labor force in each has suffered wage and job losses, shippers and their customers have gained roughly $20 billion a year in benefits. The authors recommend policies that would continue to promote competition and the efficient use of highway and railway infrastructure.
Heavy Traffic
Author | : Daniel Madar |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780774842358 |
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Canada and the United States exchange the world's highest level of bilateral trade, valued at $1.4 billion a day. Two-thirds of this trade travels on trucks. Heavy Traffic examines the way in which the regulatory reform of American and Canadian trucking, coupled with free trade, has internationalized this vital industry. Before deregulation, restrictive entry rules had fostered two separate national highway transportation markets, and most international traffic had to be exchanged at the border. When the United States deregulated first, the imbalance between its opened market and Canada's still-restricted one produced a surprisingly difficult bilateral dispute. American deregulation was motivated by domestic incentives, but the subsequent Canadian deregulation blended domestic incentives with transborder rate comparisons and concerns about trade competitiveness. Daniel Madar shows that deregulation created a de facto regime of free trade in trucking services. Removing regulatory barriers has enabled Canadian and American carriers to follow the expansion of transborder traffic that began with the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and continues with NAFTA. The services available with deregulated trucking have also supported sweeping changes in industrial logistics. As transborder traffic has surged, the two countries' carriers -- from billion-dollar corporations to family firms -- have exploited the latitude provided by deregulation. This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the policy processes and economic conditions that led to trucking deregulation. As a study in public policy formation and the international effects of reform, it will be of interest to students and scholars of political economy, international relations, and transportation.
Regulation and Deregulation of the Motor Carrier Industry
Author | : John Richard Felton,Dale G. Anderson |
Publsiher | : Iowa State Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : UOM:39015011747451 |
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Disentangling regulatory policy the effects of state regulations on trucking rates
Author | : Andrew N. Kleit |
Publsiher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Transportation and state |
ISBN | : 9781428954342 |
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