The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
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大型钻机：卡车运输和美国梦的衰落
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2016
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Steve Viscelli
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Steve Viscelli
Ocejo的《工艺大师》和Viscelli的《大钻机》都说明了当今经济中工人阶级的工作已经今非昔比。Viscelli探讨了卡车驾驶如何不再是“美国最好的蓝领工作之一”（第9页），而Ocejo则关注“中产阶级的孩子如何”接受“工人阶级的工作”，通过手工制作的真实感“变得时髦”（第129页）。这两本书都阐明了人们对工作的看法，特别是对独立承包和时髦手工艺行业的看法，是如何掩盖了这些行业工作不稳定的现实。这两本书都对这些职业正在发生变化的经济背景进行了社会学分析，强调了工人阶级的好工作越来越稀缺，只有少数特权阶层才能获得。
Ocejo’s Masters of Craft and Viscelli’s The Big Rig both illustrate how working-class jobs in today’s economy ain’t what they used to be. Viscelli explores how truck driving is no longer ‘one of the best blue-collar jobs in the US’ (p. 9), while Ocejo focuses on ‘how middle-class kids’ take ‘working-class jobs’ made trendy through a sense of handcrafted authenticity (p. 129). Both books illuminate how perceptions of the work, particularly independent contracting and hip craft trades, obscure the unstable realities of jobs in these industries. Offering sociological analysis of the economic context in which these occupations are changing, both books highlight how good working-class jobs are increasingly scarce and available to only a privileged few.