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Choke Points : Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wildcat SeriesPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786801906
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Choke PointsDDC classification:
  • 658.7
LOC classification:
  • HD38.5 .C465 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Forging Workers' Resistance Across the Global Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness -- Part I: Building Labor Power and Solidarity Across the World's Choke Points -- 1. Labor and Social Movements' Strategic Usage of the Global Commodity Chain Structure - Elizabeth A. Sowers, Paul S. Ciccantell, and David A. Smith -- 2. Across the Chain: Labor and Conflicts in the European Maritime Logistics Sector - Andrea Bottalico -- 3. Durban Dockers, Labor Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism - Peter Cole -- Part II: Disruptions: Logistics Workers Resisting Exploitation -- 4. Worker Militancy and Strikes in China's Docks - Bai Ruixue and Au Loong Yu -- 5. "Work Hard, Make History": Oppression and Resistance in Inland Southern California's Warehouse and Distribution Industry - Ellen Reese and Jason Struna -- 6. "Stop Treating Us Like Dogs!" Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland - Amazon Workers and supporters -- 7. Decolonizing Logistics: Palestinian Truckers on the Occupied Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Spencer Louis Potiker -- Part III: Neoliberalism and the Global Transformation of Ports -- 8. Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai - Johnson Abhishek Minz -- 9. Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! - Dimitris Parsanoglou and Carolin Philipp -- 10. Contested Logistics? Neoliberal Modernization and Resistance in the Port City of Valparaiso - Jorge Budrovich Saez and Hernan Cuevas Valenzuela -- 11. Logistics Workers' Struggles in Turkey: Neoliberalism and Counterstrategies - Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Pekin Bengisu Tepe -- Part IV: New Organizing Strategies for the Global Supply Chain -- 12. "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.
13. Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Experimental Organizing in Southern California's Logistics Sector - Sheheryar Kaoosji -- 14. Struggles and Grassroots Organizing in an Extended European Choke Point - Carlotta Benvegnu and Niccolo Cuppini -- 15. Beyond the Waterfront: Maintaining and Expanding Worker Power in the Maritime Supply Chain - Peter Olney -- Contributor Biographies -- Index.
Summary: These are the stories of the workers who undermine capitalism at its weakest point.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Forging Workers' Resistance Across the Global Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness -- Part I: Building Labor Power and Solidarity Across the World's Choke Points -- 1. Labor and Social Movements' Strategic Usage of the Global Commodity Chain Structure - Elizabeth A. Sowers, Paul S. Ciccantell, and David A. Smith -- 2. Across the Chain: Labor and Conflicts in the European Maritime Logistics Sector - Andrea Bottalico -- 3. Durban Dockers, Labor Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism - Peter Cole -- Part II: Disruptions: Logistics Workers Resisting Exploitation -- 4. Worker Militancy and Strikes in China's Docks - Bai Ruixue and Au Loong Yu -- 5. "Work Hard, Make History": Oppression and Resistance in Inland Southern California's Warehouse and Distribution Industry - Ellen Reese and Jason Struna -- 6. "Stop Treating Us Like Dogs!" Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland - Amazon Workers and supporters -- 7. Decolonizing Logistics: Palestinian Truckers on the Occupied Supply Chain - Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Spencer Louis Potiker -- Part III: Neoliberalism and the Global Transformation of Ports -- 8. Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai - Johnson Abhishek Minz -- 9. Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! - Dimitris Parsanoglou and Carolin Philipp -- 10. Contested Logistics? Neoliberal Modernization and Resistance in the Port City of Valparaiso - Jorge Budrovich Saez and Hernan Cuevas Valenzuela -- 11. Logistics Workers' Struggles in Turkey: Neoliberalism and Counterstrategies - Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Pekin Bengisu Tepe -- Part IV: New Organizing Strategies for the Global Supply Chain -- 12. "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.

13. Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Experimental Organizing in Southern California's Logistics Sector - Sheheryar Kaoosji -- 14. Struggles and Grassroots Organizing in an Extended European Choke Point - Carlotta Benvegnu and Niccolo Cuppini -- 15. Beyond the Waterfront: Maintaining and Expanding Worker Power in the Maritime Supply Chain - Peter Olney -- Contributor Biographies -- Index.

These are the stories of the workers who undermine capitalism at its weakest point.

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