Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-11-03
Books mentioned on #237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
Steve Viscelli is a former truck driver and now an economic sociologist at University of Pennsylvania studying freight transportation, including autonomous trucks. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Shopify: https://shopify.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Big Rig
Discussed“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”
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Panorama of Nations, Or, Journeys Among the Families of Men
Panorama of Nations, Or, Journeys Among the Families of Men is an expansive historical and cultural survey authored by Harry Gardner Cutler and Levi W.
Recommended“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”
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Memories and Machines: the Pattern of My Life
Memories and Machines: the Pattern of My Life is an autobiographical work detailing the remarkable engineering career and life of Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo, a pioneer in internal combustion engine design.
Recommended“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”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Big Rig
“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”
Own book The Big Rig
“i do think the my first book was a success as you know relative to my goals of trying to really you know get at the heart of of sort of the central issues and and the lives being led by people”