ABSTRACT
The logistics sector—ports, railways, trucking, and warehousing—long a critical area for global capital and labor, is an increasingly strategic component of globalized flexible production and distribution networks. Low-wage workers of color who constitute an increasing number of largely unorganized employees in transportation and in labor as a whole may serve as a fertile social base for a new wave of unionism. The logistics sector of the Pacific Rim is an increasingly important strategic site for global capital and labor, linking up overseas production from China, Mexico, and other locations to the huge markets of Southern California, the Sunbelt, and the entire United State. The move toward flexible systems of production, distribution, and warfare today ensures that the logistics connecting labor and global production are of growing importance as strategic sites for labor and capital—and the global peace and social justice movements.
