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

• Pubblicazione: London. England : , : Pluto Press, , 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 658.7
• Soggetto topico: Business logistics; Competition, International; International business enterprises
• Persona (resp. second.): Alimahomed-WilsonJake; NessImmanuel
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Forging Workers' Resistance Across the Global Supply Chain -- 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 -- 2 Across the Chain: Labor and Conflicts in the European Maritime Logistics Sector -- 3 Durban Dockers, Labor Internationalism, and Pan-Africanism -- Part II Disruptions: Logistics Workers Resisting Exploitation -- 4 Worker Militancy and Strikes in China's Docks -- 5 "Work Hard, Make History": Oppression and Resistance in Inland Southern California's Warehouse and Distribution Industry -- 6 Stop Treating Us Like Dogs! Workers Organizing Resistance at Amazon in Poland -- 7 Decolonizing Logistics: Palestinian Truckers on the Occupied Supply Chain -- Part III Neoliberalism and the Global Transformation of Ports -- 8 Decoding the Transition in the Ports of Mumbai -- 9 Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! -- 10 Contested Logistics? Neoliberal Modernization and Resistance in the Port City of Valparaíso -- 11 Logistics Workers' Struggles in Turkey: Neoliberalism and Counterstrategies -- 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 -- 13 Lessons Learned from Eight Years of Experimental Organizing in Southern California's Logistics Sector -- 14 Struggles and Grassroots Organizing in an Extended European Choke Point -- 15 Beyond the Waterfront: Maintaining and Expanding Worker Power in the Maritime Supply Chain -- Contributor Biographies -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: These are the stories of the workers who undermine capitalism at its weakest point.
• Titolo autorizzato: Choke points
• ISBN: 1-78680-234-1; 1-78680-190-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796852803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wildcat