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Choke points : logistics workers disrupting the global supply chain /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alimahomed-Wilson, Jake (Editor ), Ness, Immanuel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press, 2018.
Colección:Wildcat (Pluto Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.