Choke points : logistics workers disrupting the global supply chain / edited by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness.

Date:
2018
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Logistics workers disrupting the global supply chain

Description

"This book looks at case studies across the world to uncover a network of resistance by these workers who, despite their importance, often face vast exploitation and economic violence. Covering action including wildcat strikes, organized blockades and boycotts, the author's explore diverse case studies ranging from dockworkers in South China and Chile to logistics sector workers in Southern California and Turkey"-- From back cover.

Publication/Creation

London : Pluto Press, 2018.

Physical description

vi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Forging workers' resistance across the global supply chain / Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness -- Labor and social movements' strategic usage of the global commodity chain structure / Elizabeth A. Sowers, Paul S. Ciccantell, and David A. Smith -- Across the chain: labor and conflicts in the European maritime logistics sector / Andrea Bottalico -- Durban dockers, labor internationalism, and pan-Africanism / Peter Cole -- Worker militancy and strikes in China's docks / Bai Ruixue and Au Loong Yu -- "Work hard, make history": oppression and resistance in inland southern California's warehouse and distribution industry / Ellen Reese and Jason Struna -- Stop treating us like dogs! workers organizing resistance at Amazon in Poland / Amazon workers and supporters -- Decolonizing logistics: Palestinian truckers on the occupied supply chain / Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Spencer Louis Potiker -- Decoding the transition in the ports of Mumbai / Johnson Abhishek Minz -- Back to Piraeus: precarity for all! / Dimitris Parsanoglou and Carolin Philipp -- Contested logistics? neoliberal modernization and resistance in the port city of Valparaíso / Jorge Budrovich Sáez and Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela -- Logistics workers' struggles in Turkey: neoliberalism and counterstrategies / Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Pekin Bengisu Tepe -- "The drivers who move this country can also stop it": the struggle of tanker drivers in Indonesia / Abu Mufakhir, Alfian Al'ayubby Pelu, and Fahmi Panimbang -- Lessons learned from eight years of experimental organizing in southern California's logistics sector / Sheheryar Kaoosji -- Struggles and grassroots organizing in an extended European choke point / Carlotta Benvegnù and Niccolò Cuppini -- Beyond the waterfront: maintaining and expanding worker power in the maritime supply chain / Peter Olney.

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ISBN

  • 9780745337241
  • 0745337244