Choke points : logistics workers disrupting the global supply chain

Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Immanuel Ness

Part I: Building labour power and solidarity across the world's choke points 1) Labour and social movements strategic usage of the global commodity chain structure 2) Across the chain: labour and logistics in the European maritime-logistics sector 3) Durban dockers, labour 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) Decolonising 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 modernisation and citizen mobilisation in the port city of Valparaiso 11) Logistics workers' struggles in Turkey: neoliberalism and counterstrategies - Part IV: New organising 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. - SUMMARY: "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."