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Pages: 280
Authors: Michael H. Belzer
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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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 W
The Big Rig
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Pages: 285
Authors: Steve Viscelli
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-12 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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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 th
Sweatshop USA
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Authors: Daniel E. Bender
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-28 - Publisher: Routledge

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For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to American shor
A Survival Guide for Truck Drivers
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Alice Adams
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-10 - Publisher: Cengage Learning

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An employer’s cost to replace a driver ranges from $5,000 to $8,000. Turnover can be prevented and retention increased by developing a driver with the life sk
Killer on the Road
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Ginger Strand
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-04 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before th