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Drawing on in-depth interviews, archived oral histories, and ethnographic observation, this book highlights the struggle of a key group of Black and women longshore workers who fought against and struggled with racism and sexism in the ports of Southern California.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Solidarity Forever?
Chapter 2: The Story of a Union
Chapter 3: Racial Formation of the Ports of Southern California
Chapter 4: Suing the Union
Chapter 5: Is Discrimination a Weapon of the Boss...or the Union Local?
Chapter 6: "Union Men" and the Crisis of Masculinity on the Docks
Chapter 7: Breaking the "Steel Ceiling": Working Class Women Resisting Sexism and Racism in the Union (co-authored by Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson)
Chapter 8: Redefining Solidarity
Appendix I: Race and Gender Breakdown: Southern California ILWU (2005)
Appendix II: Oral Histories
About the author
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. His research interests are in the areas of logistics, racism and labour, and workers' struggles. He is the author of Solidarity Forever? Race, Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California (Lexington Books, 2016), co-author of Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2008) and the editor of Choke Points (Pluto, 2018). Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He is author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto, 2015), co-editor of Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain (Pluto, 2018) and editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.
Summary
Drawing on in-depth interviews, archived oral histories, and ethnographic observation, this book highlights the struggle of a key group of Black and women longshore workers who fought against and struggled with racism and sexism in the ports of Southern California.
