Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0745337252 ISBN 13 : 9780745337258

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2018

Synopsis

Global capitalism is a precarious system. Relying on the steady flow of goods across the world, trans-national companies such as Wal-Mart and Amazon depend on the work of millions in docks, warehouses and logistics centres to keep their goods moving. This is the global supply chain, and, if the chain is broken, capitalism grinds to a halt. 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. Experiencing first hand wildcat strikes, organised blockades and boycotts, the authors explore a diverse range of case studies, from South China dockworkers to the transformation of the port of Piraeus in Greece, and from the Southern California logistics sector, to dock and logistical workers in Chile and unions in Turkey.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. His research interests are in the areas of logistics, racism and labour, and workers' struggles. He is the author of Solidarity Forever? Race, Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California (Lexington Books, 2016), co-author of Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2008) and the editor of Choke Points (Pluto, 2018). Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He is author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto, 2015), co-editor of Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain (Pluto, 2018) and editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.

Immanuel Ness is professor of political science at the City University of New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745337252
• ISBN 13: 9780745337258
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Alimahomed-Wilson Jake, Ness Immanuel
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne