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Warehouse Workers United: Power and Organizing in the Logistics Supply Chain.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Warehouse Workers United: Power and Organizing in the Logistics Supply Chain./
Author:	Ebner, Nina.
Description:	116 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-02.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International55-02(E).
Subject:	Labor relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1604042
ISBN:	9781339260181

Warehouse Workers United: Power and Organizing in the Logistics Supply Chain.
Ebner, Nina.

Warehouse Workers United: Power and Organizing in the Logistics Supply Chain. - 116 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-02.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of California, Davis, 2015.

Since the 1970s, the global political economy has shifted and is driven by a new model, where transnational retailers influence labor standards for workers at every level of the supply chain. This model, the Wal-Mart model (Lichtenstein 2002), has become a template for 21st century capitalism, characterized by low wages, poor benefits for workers, fierce employer opposition to unions and support for neoliberal policies both in the US and abroad. This is a model also associated with growing economic inequality and a hollowing out of the middle class (Bonacich and Wilson 2008). This thesis examines how both labor law and labor advocacy organizations can respond to the current organization of work and production in ways that might benefit workers at the bottom of the supply chain, through an examination of the organizing efforts of Warehouse Workers United, a worker center in the Inland Empire. Drawing on Michael Burawoy's (1998) extended case study method, the study incorporates interviews with a variety of stakeholders to examine how the worker center model may provide low-wage workers with more power and protection. Building worker power through traditional collective bargaining mechanisms and holding employers accountable for violating employment law utilizing other avenues of grassroots organizing, such as worker centers, are both important and necessary in today's precarious labor market. In addition, building power and support should happen through expanding and enhancing grassroots labor organizing strategies and labor law. Many workers do not benefit from the current legal framework that defines the employment relationship; expanding labor law will need to move away from this framework as the unit of analysis to establish employer responsibility and legal liability.

ISBN: 9781339260181Subjects--Topical Terms:

3172144
Labor relations.

Warehouse Workers United: Power and Organizing in the Logistics Supply Chain.
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