![]() The book is a vivid and readable ethnography. This riveting account shows how truck drivers-seeking the American dream-end up being harmed by changes in government policy and business practices. These intersecting analyses generate powerful insights into two of the most fundamental questions about the nature of inequality in the United States today: Where do so many bad jobs come from, and why do people put up with them?-Erik Olin Wright, author of Envisioning Real Utopias ![]() It combines gripping fine-grained ethnographic accounts of the lived reality of long-haul truck driving in the United States today with a compelling analysis of the macro-structural conditions in which those lives are lived and an historical account of the political economic forces that generated those conditions. ![]() ![]() Steve Viscelli's The Big Rig is a remarkable book. This Description may be from another edition of this product. ![]()
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