Workers’ Movements and the Global Supply Chain: Introduction
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Robert Ovetz
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Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
Abstract
The global supply chain crisis during the pandemic provides an opportunity to reflect on the vulnerabilities of the just-in-time model of capitalist production. As capital studies and prepares for risks to the global supply chain, so must workers if we are make global systemic changes needed to reverse the many catastrophic crises facing humanity. The articles in this forum re-examine unions and global workers organizing in seven countries to move us past the limited focus on collective bargaining, contracts, labor law, and unions tied to neoliberal political parties to identify and assess strategies for cross-border worker organizing at these choke points to apply pressure, extract gains, and tip the balance of power in their favor.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editors’ Forums
- Workers’ Movements and the Global Supply Chain: Introduction
- Supply Chain Organizing as a Worker-led Strategy for Trade: A Case Study of Unite the Union
- Automation Processes in the Port Industry and Union Strategies: The Case of Antwerp
- Toward Degrowth: Worker Power, Surveillance Abolition, and Climate Justice at Amazon
- Fragmented But Widespread Microconflicts: Current Limits and Future Possibilities for Organizing Precarious Workers in the French Logistics Sector
- Global Justice Advocacy, Trade Unions, and the Supply Chain Law Initiative in Germany
- Reportage
- Supply Chain Workers’ Inquiries: Class Struggle along Value Chains
- Book Reviews
- John M. Hobson: Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy: Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier
- Benjamin D. Hopkins: Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State
- Daniel Palm: Seizing the Square. 1989 Protests in China and Germany from a Global Perspective
- Peter Svik: Civil Aviation and the Globalization of the Cold War
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editors’ Forums
- Workers’ Movements and the Global Supply Chain: Introduction
- Supply Chain Organizing as a Worker-led Strategy for Trade: A Case Study of Unite the Union
- Automation Processes in the Port Industry and Union Strategies: The Case of Antwerp
- Toward Degrowth: Worker Power, Surveillance Abolition, and Climate Justice at Amazon
- Fragmented But Widespread Microconflicts: Current Limits and Future Possibilities for Organizing Precarious Workers in the French Logistics Sector
- Global Justice Advocacy, Trade Unions, and the Supply Chain Law Initiative in Germany
- Reportage
- Supply Chain Workers’ Inquiries: Class Struggle along Value Chains
- Book Reviews
- John M. Hobson: Multicultural Origins of the Global Economy: Beyond the Western-Centric Frontier
- Benjamin D. Hopkins: Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State
- Daniel Palm: Seizing the Square. 1989 Protests in China and Germany from a Global Perspective
- Peter Svik: Civil Aviation and the Globalization of the Cold War
