Choke Points

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 Saez and Hernan Cuevas Valenzuela 11. Logistics Workers' Struggles in Turkey: Neoliberalism and Counterstrategies - Ça?atay Edgucan ?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