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Getting the Goods - Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution (Paperback): Edna Bonacich, Jake B. Wilson Getting the Goods - Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution (Paperback)
Edna Bonacich, Jake B. Wilson
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R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Getting the Goods, Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson focus on the Southern California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach which together receive 40 percent of the nearly $2 trillion worth of goods imported annually to the United States to examine the impact of the logistics revolution on workers in transportation and distribution. Built around the invention of shipping containers and communications technology, the logistics revolution has enabled giant retailers like Walmart and Target to sell cheap consumer products made using low-wage labor in developing countries. The goods are shipped through an efficient, low-cost, intermodal freight system, in which containers are moved from factories in Asia to distribution centers across the United States without ever being opened.

Bonacich and Wilson follow the flow of imports from Asian factories, exploring the roles of importers, container shipping companies, the ports, railroad and trucking companies, and warehouses. At each stage, Getting the Goods raises important questions about how the logistics revolution affects logistics workers. Drawing extensively on interviews with workers and managers at all levels of the supply chain, on industry reports, and on economic data, Bonacich and Wilson find that, in general, conditions have deteriorated for workers. But they also discover that changes in the system of production and distribution provide new strategic opportunities for labor to gain power. A much-needed corrective to both uncritical celebrations of containerization and the global economy and pessimistic predictions about the future of the U.S. labor movement, Getting the Goods will become required reading for scholars and students in sociology, political economy, and labor studies."

Global Production - The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim (Paperback): Edna Bonacich Global Production - The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim (Paperback)
Edna Bonacich
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R925 Discovery Miles 9 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examines the social and political consequences of the globalization of the apparel industry in Asia, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States. This work analyzes the countries' trade policies, the apparel industry's network of capital ad labor, working conditions in garment factories, and the role of workers, especially women.

Post-Ghetto (Hardcover): Josh Sides Post-Ghetto (Hardcover)
Josh Sides; Contributions by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Andrea Asuma, Edna Bonacich, Robert Gottlieb, …
R2,424 Discovery Miles 24 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Is South Los Angeles on the mend? How is it combating the blight of crime, gang violence, high unemployment, and dire poverty? In provocative essays, the contributing authors to "Post-Ghetto" address these questions by pointing out robust signs of hope for the area's residents--an increase in corporate retail investment, a decrease in homicides, a proliferation of nonprofit service providers, a paradigm shift in violence- and gang-prevention programs, and progress toward a strengthened, more racially integrated labor movement. By charting the connections between public policy and the health of a community, the authors offer innovative ideas and visionary strategies for further urban renewal and remediation. Contributors: Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Andrea Azuma, Edna Bonacich, Robert Gottlieb, Karen M. Hennigan, Jorge N. Leal, Jill Leovy, Cheryl Maxson, Scott Saul, David C. Sloane, Mark Vallianatos, Danny Widener, Natale Zappia

The Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity - Small Business in the Japanese American Community (Paperback): Edna Bonacich, John... The Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity - Small Business in the Japanese American Community (Paperback)
Edna Bonacich, John Modell
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R1,009 Discovery Miles 10 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Getting the Goods - Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution (Hardcover): Edna Bonacich, Jake B. Wilson Getting the Goods - Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution (Hardcover)
Edna Bonacich, Jake B. Wilson
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R2,904 R2,711 Discovery Miles 27 110 Save R193 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Getting the Goods, Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson focus on the Southern California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach which together receive 40 percent of the nearly $2 trillion worth of goods imported annually to the United States to examine the impact of the logistics revolution on workers in transportation and distribution. Built around the invention of shipping containers and communications technology, the logistics revolution has enabled giant retailers like Walmart and Target to sell cheap consumer products made using low-wage labor in developing countries. The goods are shipped through an efficient, low-cost, intermodal freight system, in which containers are moved from factories in Asia to distribution centers across the United States without ever being opened.

Bonacich and Wilson follow the flow of imports from Asian factories, exploring the roles of importers, container shipping companies, the ports, railroad and trucking companies, and warehouses. At each stage, Getting the Goods raises important questions about how the logistics revolution affects logistics workers. Drawing extensively on interviews with workers and managers at all levels of the supply chain, on industry reports, and on economic data, Bonacich and Wilson find that, in general, conditions have deteriorated for workers. But they also discover that changes in the system of production and distribution provide new strategic opportunities for labor to gain power. A much-needed corrective to both uncritical celebrations of containerization and the global economy and pessimistic predictions about the future of the U.S. labor movement, Getting the Goods will become required reading for scholars and students in sociology, political economy, and labor studies."

Labor Immigration under Capitalism - Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II (Hardcover): Lucie Cheng, Edna... Labor Immigration under Capitalism - Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II (Hardcover)
Lucie Cheng, Edna Bonacich
R3,306 Discovery Miles 33 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

The Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity - Small Business in the Japanese American Community (Hardcover): Edna Bonacich, John... The Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity - Small Business in the Japanese American Community (Hardcover)
Edna Bonacich, John Modell
R2,709 Discovery Miles 27 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Labor Immigration under Capitalism - Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II (Paperback): Lucie Cheng, Edna... Labor Immigration under Capitalism - Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II (Paperback)
Lucie Cheng, Edna Bonacich
R2,247 Discovery Miles 22 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Immigrant Entrepreneurs - Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982 (Paperback, Revised): Ivan Light, Edna Bonacich Immigrant Entrepreneurs - Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965-1982 (Paperback, Revised)
Ivan Light, Edna Bonacich
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R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A decade in preparation, "Immigrant Entrepreneurs" offers the most comprehensive case study ever completed of the causes and consequences of immigrant business ownership. Koreans are the most entrepreneurial of America's new immigrants. By the mid-1970s Americans had already become aware that Korean immigrants were opening, buying, and operating numerous business enterprises in major cities. When Koreans flourished in small business, Americans wanted to know how immigrants could find lucrative business opportunities where native-born Americans could not. Somewhat later, when Korean-black conflicts surfaced in a number of cities, Americans also began to fear the implications for intergroup relations of immigrant entrepreneurs who start in the middle rather than at the bottom of the social and economic hierarchy.
Nowhere was immigrant enterprise more obvious or impressive than in Los Angeles, the world's largest Korean settlement outside of Korea and America's premier city of small business. Analyzing both the short-run and the long-run causes of Korean entrepreneurship, the authors explain why the Koreans could find, acquire, and operate small business firms more easily than could native-born residents. They also provide a context for distinguishing clashes of culture and clashes of interest which cause black-Korean tensions in cities, and for framing effective policies to minimize the tensions.

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