Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast

Peter Cole on the Power of Dockworkers

05.07.2019 - By Jessica Levy and Dylan GottliebPlay

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We talk a lot about logistics on this show – the industries, like Amazon or FedEx, that have made fortunes managing the movement of goods from one place to another. Logistics companies undergird the globalized economy, making it possible for companies to benefit from low wages and labor abuses in the global South by moving finished products quickly and cheaply to markets all over the world. Our guest today explains how dock workers have been another force enabling the global economy to function and examines the power they wield even in the era of the container ship.

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