📚 3 Books mentioned in "Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream | Lex Fridman Podcast #237" of Lex Fridman Podcast
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream | Lex Fridman Podcast #237
Published on November 3, 2021
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Memories and Machines: the Pattern of My Life
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there's a really cool like um one thing i would recommend to to you and your listeners if you really want to see some like a remarkable page in sort of the history of labor and automation there's a a report that harry bridges who was um the socialist leader of the the longshoremen on the west coast and just you know galvanized that union and they they still control the ports today because of this vision that he laid down in the 1960s he put out a photojournal report called men and machines and basically what it was was it was an internal education campaign to convince the membership that they had to go along with automation machines were coming for their jobs
Steve Viscelli recommends a report/photojournal by Harry Bridges, mentioning its title and author, and describing its content.
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Panorama of Nations, Or, Journeys Among the Families of Men
there's a really cool like um one thing i would recommend to to you and your listeners if you really want to see some like a remarkable page in sort of the history of labor and automation there's a a report that harry bridges who was um the socialist leader of the the longshoremen on the west coast and just you know galvanized that union and they they still control the ports today because of this vision that he laid down in the 1960s he put out a photojournal report called men and machines and basically what it was was it was an internal education campaign to convince the membership that they had to go along with automation machines were coming for their jobs
Steve Viscelli recommends a report/photojournal by Harry Bridges, mentioning its title and author, and describing its content.
The Big Rig
Buy The Big Rig by Steve Viscelli on Amazon
the following is a conversation with steve vaseli formerly a truck driver and now a sociologist at the university of pennsylvania who studies freight transportation his first book the big rig trucking in the decline of the american dream explains how long-haul trucking went from being one of the best blue collar jobs to one of the toughest
The host introduces Steve Viscelli and mentions his first book, describing its topic.