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Western Kentucky University
Keeping the "Shiny Side Up" and the "Hammer Down": The Subculture of American Truck Drivers
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe purpose of this research is to provide a comprehensive description of the trucking subculture. In addition to detailing the material and nonmaterial aspects of and the process of being socialized into the trucking subculture, this thesis provides a profile of the contemporary American truck driver including demographics, work activities, attitudes, opinions and illegal activities.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Art
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Department of Sociology
- Year
- 1998
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Fields, David
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/306
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-1309