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SUMMARY:Choke Points
DESCRIPTION:Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain\nA discussion with editors Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness  \nPresented by The Marxist Education Project with The Left Front \nAn important new book from Pluto Press (plutobooks.com) \nGlobal capitalism is always 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 centers to keep goods moving. This is the global supply chain. If the chain is broken\, capitalism grinds to a halt. This talk concerns the book of the same name\, looking at case studies across the world to uncover a network of resistance by these workers who\, despite their importance\, face extreme exploitation and economic violence. \nExperiencing first hand wildcat strikes\, organized blockades and boycotts\, the authors have explored a diverse range of organizing and related activities\, 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. \nJoin us for an evening of discussion on the potential strength our class has the ability to utilize in facing capital dominance during our period where capital has of necessity created this points that really give us the means of “choking” their power. \n“This phenomenal collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the dire state of the contemporary global economy. It offers an unprecedented analysis of supply chain capitalism through case studies from around the world that are beautifully written and carefully researched.”—Deborah Cowen\, University of Toronto \n“Beyond analyzing logistical choke points as abstract sites for capital to route around or locations in which workers acquire untimely power\, this volume takes us straight into these crucial nodes of labor struggle. Choke points in global supply chains are revealed as spaces of hazard and calculation\, violence and negotiation\, victory and loss\, passion and organization.” —Brett Neilson\, Research Professor\, Institute for Culture and Society\, Western Sydney University \nJake Alimahomed-Wilson is Professor of Sociology at California State University\, Long Beach. He is the author of Solidarity Forever? Race\, Gender\, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California (Lexington Books\, 2016) and co-author of Getting the Goods: Ports\, Labor\, and the Logistics Revolution (Cornell University Press\, 2008). \nImmanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He is author of Southern Insurgency (Pluto\, 2015)\, Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism (Univ. of Illinois Press\, 2011)\, and numerous other works. He is editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.  \nNo one turned away for inability to pay
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