His primary research focuses on how state policy and informal labor market institutions shape the behavior of workers and firms. He explains how deregulation and collective action by employers transformed trucking’s labor markets-once dominated by the largest and most powerful union in US history-into an important example of the costs of contemporary labor markets for workers and the general public. Viscelli, Steve The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream ISBN 13: 9780520278110 The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream Viscelli, Steve 3. Steve Viscelli is a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies work, labor markets, and public policy related to freight transportation, automa-tion and energy. He then shows how inexperienced workers are convinced to lease a truck and to work as independent contractors. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, including six months training and working as a long-haul trucker, Viscelli explains in detail how labor is recruited, trained, and used in the industry. The Big Rig explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. He also spent six months driving a big rig. Steves first book The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American. The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream by Steve Viscelli Hardcover (First Edition) 85. Steve Viscelli is a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in freight transportation and automation. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. Steve Viscelli is an economic sociologist who studies work, labor markets. The typical long-haul trucker works the equivalent of two full-time jobs, often for little more than minimum wage.

Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels.

The Big Rig by Steve Viscelli