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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Port of Long Beach, Pier J South Marine Terminal
Author: The Port of Long Beach, Pier J South Marine Terminal
Author: Schuyler Heim Bridge Replacement and SR-47 Expressway Project
Author: Middle Harbor Redevelopment Project
Author: Draft Environmental Impact Report/environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Pacific Texas Pipeline Project
Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Harbor DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum pipelines
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Pacific Texas Pipeline Project, Proposed
Author: The Ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Port Hueneme, California
Author: Port of Los Angeles Channel Deepening Project
Author: Long Beach LNG Import Project
Author: Blue and Green
Author: Scott L. CummingsPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262534312
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port. In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles. Tracing the history of struggle in an industry at the epicenter of the global supply chain, Cummings shows how an unprecedented “blue-green” alliance mobilized to improve working conditions for low-income drivers and air quality in nearby communities. The campaign for “clean trucks,” Cummings argues, teaches much about how social movements can use law to challenge inequality in a global era. Cummings shows how federal deregulation created interrelated economic and environmental problems at the port and how the campaign fought back by mobilizing law at the local level. He documents three critical stages: initial success in passing landmark legislation requiring port trucking companies to convert trucks from dirty to clean and drivers from contractors to employees with full labor rights; campaign decline after industry litigation blocked employee conversion; and campaign resurgence through an innovative legal approach to driver misclassification that realized a central labor movement goal—unionizing port truckers. Appraising the campaign, Cummings analyzes the tradeoffs of using alternative legal frameworks to promote labor organizing, and explores lessons for building movements to regulate low-wage work in the “gig” economy. He shows how law can bind coalitions together and split them apart, and concludes that the fight for legal reform never ends, but rather takes different turns on the long road to justice.