Steve Viscelli

Professor of Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Steve Viscelli is an economic sociologist who studies work, labor markets, technology and public policy. He is a Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream, which explains how deregulation of trucking and the rise of independent contracting turned trucking from one of the best blue-collar jobs in the US into one of the toughest. He has worked on a wide-range of research and policy initiatives at the State and Federal levels to improve training, pay and working conditions for truck drivers. In 2023 and 2024 he served on the USDOT’s Truck Leasing Task Force. His current research focuses on the impact of autonomous trucks on truckers and the impact of subcontracting and technology on package delivery drivers.