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Blue and Green - The Drive for Justice at America's Port (Paperback)
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Blue and Green - The Drive for Justice at America's Port (Paperback)
Series: Blue and Green
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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.
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