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Podcast: Voice Of GO(r)D
Episode: Sweatshops on Wheels with Trucker and Academic Dr. Michael Belzer
Description: Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to kick off Truck Driver Appreciation Week in conversation with Dr. Michael Belzer, the author of Sweatshops on Wheels, an academic inquest into what happened to the wages and working lives of truckers in the aftermath of economic deregulation, brought to the industry by the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. Published back in 2000, this book remains one of the seminal studies on the effects of deregulation over this very large and important sector of the working class.
Professor Belzer's own website does a great job on his...