Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain (Wildcat)

ISBN 10: 0745337252 / ISBN 13: 9780745337258

Published by Pluto Press, 2018

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Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain (Wildcat)
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745337252
• ISBN 13: 9780745337258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The global economy seems indomitable. Goods travel all over the globe, supplying just-in-time retail stocks, keeping consumers satisfied and businesses profitable.
            But there are vulnerabilities, and Choke Points reveals them—and the ways that workers are finding ways to make use of the power that those choke points afford them. Exploring a number of case studies around the world, this book uncovers a little-known network of resistance by logistics workers worldwide who are determined to contest their exploitation by the forces of global capital. Through close accounts of wildcat strikes, roadblocks, and boycotts, from South China to Southern California, the contributors build a picture of a movement that flies under the radar, but carries the potential to force dramatic change.
 

About the Author

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