Katy Fox-Hodess is a lecturer in employment relations at the University of Sheffield.
The logistics industry is key to the global circulation of goods under capitalism. Workers have immense power within it to grind that circulation to a halt — if they can get organized.
From maritime empires to modern logistics, capitalism has been forged on the seas.
In the logistics industry, from port workers to truckers to delivery drivers, time is of the essence. Their potential control over that time gives workers enormous leverage in the global economy.
The University of California’s only response to successful labor organizing is violence and intimidation.
Even if the UAW had won in Tennessee, another conversation is needed about the kind of organization the union has become.
Frederick Wiseman's At Berkeley mistakes the enemies of public higher education for its defenders.
The fascist Golden Dawn party has drawn Greece's ruling party further right — and opened space for deeper austerity measures.