End of the Road author Gord Magill explores how technology and workplace surveillance have degraded the once highly regarded occupation of trucking.
In Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance, Cornell sociologist Karen Levy explains how a once highly regarded and well-paid job—which occupied such a place in the American cultural consciousness that it was possible for a film like Smokey and the Bandit to become wildly successful—is now bereft of money, glory, or fun, and of characters like Bandit and Snowman. She shows that, to a large extent, this transformation of the industry, and of the people who populate it, has been accomplished through the imposition of surveillance technology, both by the state and by that cohort of our managerial caste who would never find themselves on the other side of the cameras.
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