Download or read book Getting the Goods written by Edna Bonacich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Getting the Goods, Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson focus on the Southern California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—which together receive 40 percent of the nearly $2 trillion worth of goods imported annually to the United States—to examine the impact of the logistics revolution on workers in transportation and distribution. Built around the invention of shipping containers and communications technology, the logistics revolution has enabled giant retailers like Wal-Mart and Target to sell cheap consumer products made using low-wage labor in developing countries. The goods are shipped through an efficient, low-cost, intermodal freight system, in which containers are moved from factories in Asia to distribution centers across the United States without ever being opened. Bonacich and Wilson follow the flow of imports from Asian factories, exploring the roles of importers, container shipping companies, the ports, railroad and trucking companies, and warehouses. At each stage, Getting the Goods raises important questions about how the logistics revolution affects logistics workers. Drawing extensively on interviews with workers and managers at all levels of the supply chain, on industry reports, and on economic data, Bonacich and Wilson find that, in general, conditions have deteriorated for workers. But they also discover that changes in the system of production and distribution provide new strategic opportunities for labor to gain power. A much-needed corrective to both uncritical celebrations of containerization and the global economy and pessimistic predictions about the future of the U.S. labor movement, Getting the Goods will become required reading for scholars and students in sociology, political economy, and labor studies.
Download or read book Structural Changes in Ports and the Competitiveness of Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Trade written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Women Work and Transport written by Tessa Wright and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Work and Transport is an international collection that brings together researchers with global expertise in gender and transport work to provide original evidence of the experiences of women working in all transport modes across countries in the Global North and the Global South.
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Download or read book Social Dialogue in the Process of Structural Adjustment and Private Sector Participation in Ports written by Peter J. Turnbull and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social dialogue describes a cooperative approach to labour relations that includes features such as information exchange, consultation and negotiation. This manual provides guidance on managing and facilitating these processes in the world's ports; targeting particularly those who are involved in, or are currently planning, major programs of structural adjustment and private sector participation. It is divided into two parts. Part 1 focuses on the importance of social dialogue during periods of structural adjustment and the fact that it is an ongoing process. Part 2 examines the different phases - planning, initiating, implementing, monitoring, and evaluation; and the activities associated with each phase.
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Download or read book Global Port Cities in North America written by Boris Vormann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious that how the global integration of commodity chains actually happens spatially — creating a quantitatively new, global organization of production, distribution, and consumption processes — remains understudied. The book uses New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Montreal as case studies of how once-redundant spaces have been reorganized, and crucially, reinterpreted, so as to accommodate new flows of goods and people — and how, in these processes, social, environmental, and security costs of global production networks have been shifted to the public.
Download or read book Lloyd s Register OneOcean s Guide to Port Entry 1989 90 Nations M Z written by Lloyd's Register Foundation and published by Lloyd's Register . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971, these Guides provide invaluable information on thousands of commercial ports and terminals across the globe. They are compiled and published annually by LR OneOcean, whose years of global maritime experience allows them to provide expert and innovative solutions that enhance efficiency, sustainability, and overall industry success. The Guides cover a significant geographical breadth, and the most recent volume includes information on over 12,500 ports, harbours and terminals worldwide. These are fully indexed and contain detailed port plans and mooring diagrams.
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Download or read book Lloyd s Register OneOcean s Guide to Port Entry 1987 1988 Nations M Z written by Lloyd's Register Foundation and published by Lloyd's Register . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 1752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971, these Guides provide invaluable information of thousands of maritime ports across the globe. They are compiled and published annually by LR One Ocean, whose years of global maritime experience allows them to provide expert and innovative solutions to the sector’s problems. The Guides cover a significant geographical breadth, and the most recent volume includes information on over 12,500 ports, harbours and terminals worldwide. These are fully indexed and contain detailed port plans and mooring diagrams.
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