Comparing Critical Capitalist Commodity Chains in the Early Twenty-first Century: Opportunities For and Constraints on Labor and Political Movements
There have been a number of critical historical opportunities for labor to exert power by interrupting long distance flows of commodities at the extraction, processing, and transport stages. This vulnerability has been used by workers in these industries to gain higher wages and better working condi...
Main Authors: | Elizabeth Sowers, Paul S. Ciccantell, David A. Smith |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2015-08-01
|
Series: | Journal of World-Systems Research |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/575 |
Similar Items
-
Is it Labor's Turn to Globalize? Twenty-first Century Opportunities and Strategic Responses
by: Peter Evans
Published: (2010-09-01) -
Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century
by: Burgmann, Verity
Published: (2016) -
Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century
Published: (2016) -
Labor political action at mid-twentieth century : a case study of the CIOPAC campaign of 1944 and the Textile Workers of America /
by: Saenger, Martha L.
Published: (1960) -
Labor union investment policy
by: Horvitz, Paul Michael
Published: (2017)