The Cargo Chain: Workers Who Make Our Economy Move

Labor Notes is pleased to announce the release of The Cargo Chain — a joint project with the Longshore Workers’ Coalition and the Center for Urban Pedagogy.

Over the last 35 years, changes in the global economy have undermined bargaining power for many US workers. Corporations have pitted US workers against workers in other countries to drive down wages, erode health and safety standards, and avoid regulation. But changes in the ways that goods are made and moved have also created enormous leverage for workers in the transportation chain, giving them the potential to reverse the global race to the bottom. With organization and solidarity, these workers are in a better position than most to reclaim good jobs for themselves and for millions of other workers across the country and around the world.

This pamphlet looks at the network of ship hands, longshoremen, truck drivers, railroad operators, and warehouse workers that make the global marketplace possible. To the average consumer these workers are almost invisible, but they stand at the center of today’s economy, moving billions of dollars of goods daily. If globalization has allowed modern corporations to use the world as their workshop, it’s only possible because of the increasingly integrated network of people and machines that move things from one place to another.

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