Choke Points (eBook)

lt;p>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.

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson is 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).

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 Logistics 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 Modernisation and Citizen Mobilisation in the Port City of Valparaiso - Jorge Budrovich Sáez and Hernán Cuevas Valenzuela

11. Logistics Workers’ Struggles in Turkey: Neoliberalism and Counterstrategies - Ça atay Edgücan ahin 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 Benvegnù and Niccolò Cuppini

15. Beyond the Waterfront: Maintaining and Expanding Worker Power in the Maritime Supply Chain - Peter Olney

Contributor Biographies

Index