Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace SurveillanceData Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace SurveillanceKarenLevy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 240 pp, 32 black-and-white illustrations. $33.00/£28.00 paper (ISBN 9780691175300), $23.10 eBook (ISBN 9780691241012). Karen Levy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 240 pp, 32 black-and-white illustrations. $33.0
Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace SurveillanceData Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace SurveillanceKarenLevy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 240 pp, 32 black-and-white illustrations. $33.00/£28.00 paper (ISBN 9780691175300), $23.10 eBook (ISBN 9780691241012). Karen Levy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 240 pp, 32 black-and-white illustrations. $33.0
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数据驱动:卡车司机、技术和新工作场所监控数据驱动:卡车司机、技术和新工作场所监控Karen Levy。
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Supply chains depend on a variety of modes of transportation, from container ships and airplanes to trains and trucks, to move commodities through geographical space. The coordination of these logistical networks happens at multiple spatial scales from the global to the local, often calling on multimodality and often provided by third-party logistics companies. Most countries continue to depend heavily on road-based transport for domestic (as well as international) freight movements (making up about 70 to 80 percent of ton km), and this happens in forty-to forty-four-ton trucks. Trucks play an important role in the complex circulation of commodities, circulation that relies on the coordination of different actor groups that vary hugely in scale and also in the power they exert. Changing routes, rhythms, and expectations of freight mobilities emerged in the wake of discourses of justin-time manufacturing and the logistical revolution (Cowen 2014). This has had deep and long-lasting repercussions for the experiences of freight workers, and particularly for truck drivers—colloquially called truckers.There is a kind of mythology attached to truckers, created and sustained through film, television, and music. From Duel (1971) to Convoy (1978), there is a long-standing public fascination with the cultures of US truckers, with many imaginaries being transferred into other countries too, assuming shared cultures of road freight work, often disregarding vastly different geographical, infrastructural, and regulatory contexts. Television shows such as Ice Road Truckers (2007–2017) have sought to elevate (gendered) notions of heroism and skill, yet we still see truckers—and particularly longhaul truckers—characterized as deviant. Take, for instance,