Abstract
The logistics revolution has transformed the ways that goods are produced and transported around the world, producing numerous deleterious outcomes for workers, including the deterioration of wages and labour standards, attacks on unions, and the increase of precarious contingent labour conditions. A related, yet underexplored, process related to the logistics revolution has been the role of racialisation in further amplifying the deterioration of working conditions across the global supply chain. In this context, this article explores how the racialisation of labour impacts logistics workers in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan region. Drawing on case studies of low-wage, non-union Latinx workers in the warehouse and port trucking industries of Southern California, I argue that racialisation has accelerated the negative labour impacts related to the logistics revolution across these sectors.
Highlights
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is both the fastest growing corporation in the USA and the first public company to have reached a US$1 trillion market cap
Driven by a neoliberal supply chain management paradigm which promotes the efficient movement of goods through anti-worker policies and attacks on unions, the logistics revolution has contributed to an overall weakening of working-class power in the global economy
Drawing on case studies of low-wage, non-union Latinx1 workers in the warehouse and port trucking sectors in Southern California, it analyses how racialisation has accelerated the negative labour conditions generally associated with the logistics revolution across these sectors
Summary
The world’s largest online retailer, is both the fastest growing corporation in the USA and the first public company to have reached a US$1 trillion market cap. Drawing on case studies of low-wage, non-union Latinx1 workers in the warehouse and port trucking sectors in Southern California, it analyses how racialisation has accelerated the negative labour conditions generally associated with the logistics revolution across these sectors.
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