Book contents
- Legal Scholarship for the Urban Core
- Legal Scholarship for the Urban Core
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Editors and Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Change on the Ground
- 2 The Drive for Economic Justice at America’s Port
- 3 Making Good on the “Primacy of Labor”
- Part II Reimagining Law for the Urban Core
- Part III The Legal Academy and the Urban Core
- Index
2 - The Drive for Economic Justice at America’s Port
from Part I - Change on the Ground
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2019
- Legal Scholarship for the Urban Core
- Legal Scholarship for the Urban Core
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Editors and Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Change on the Ground
- 2 The Drive for Economic Justice at America’s Port
- 3 Making Good on the “Primacy of Labor”
- Part II Reimagining Law for the Urban Core
- Part III The Legal Academy and the Urban Core
- Index
Summary
This chapter is about the struggle over the future of work on the edge of the global economy. It traces the history of conflict in an industry that is not widely known, but sits at the epicenter of the global supply chain: short-haul trucking responsible for moving the mass of imports from enormous cargo ships to warehouses and retailers around the country. The chapter’s specific focus is on the nation’s largest and most important port complex – America’s port – which straddles the border of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, and includes the ports in both cities. Here, for nearly two decades, labor and environmental groups – bound together in a pivotal “blue–green” alliance – carried forward a monumental campaign to transform working conditions for drivers and environmental conditions for communities.
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- Legal Scholarship for the Urban CoreFrom the Ground Up, pp. 25 - 59Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019