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Dockworker Power

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Dockworker Power

By Peter Cole

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About the book

Dockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today's globalizing economy, workers in the world's ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Peter Cole brings such overlooked experiences to light in an eye-opening comparative study of Durban, South Africa, and the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Path-breaking research reveals how unions effected lasting change in some of the most far-reaching struggles of modern ...Show more

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ISBN

9780252042072

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Dockworker Power

Format

Hardcover

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