Author: International Association of Refrigerated WarehousesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cold storage
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
International Directory of Refrigerated Warehouses & Distribution Centers
Author: International Association of Refrigerated WarehousesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cold storage
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Unsustainable
Author: Ellen ReesePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520388380
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"From famously humble origins in founder Jeff Bezos's garage, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history, able to deliver virtually anything to virtually anywhere thanks to its vast worldwide network of fulfillment centers. Unsustainable looks inside the company's warehouses to reveal that the rise of Amazon, and warehousing more generally, is made possible by the exploitation of workers' labor and communities' resources, including the natural environment. Juliann Emmons Allison and Ellen Reese expose the real-world repurcussions of these pernicious practices through a chilling case study of the socioeconomic and environmental harms associated with the largely unchecked growth of warehousing within Inland Southern California, one of the nation's largest logistics hubs, where Amazon is the largest private-sector employer. Tracing the rise of grassroots resistance to Amazon and the warehouse industry by workers and communities across this region, the country, and the globe, Unsustainable provides fresh insight into one of the most important and far-reaching struggles of our time"--
Getting the Goods
Author: Edna BonacichPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801459478
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
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 Wal-Mart 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.
Inland Shift
Author: Juan De LaraPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520297393
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Global goods and the infrastructure of desire -- The spatial politics of Southern California's logistics regime -- Labor and the circuits of capital -- Cyborg labor and the global logistics matrix -- Contesting contingency -- Mapping the American dream -- Land, capital, and race -- Latinx frontiers
Southern California Business
Author: Publisher:
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Category : California, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Cutting Costs
Author: Fred H. NeuPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Addressing a topic of critical importance to every business, this book provides managers at all levels the tools to conduct a successful cost-cutting and productivity-improvement program. Cost cutting and improving productivity are objectives that have always been—and continue to be—critically important to businesses. Today, being efficient isn't simply "best practice;" it's essential to preventing layoffs and facility closures. In Cutting Costs: Successful Strategies for Improving Productivity, a certified management consultant with nearly four decades of experience presents his highly relevant and extensive knowledge to help businesses make significant improvements and be more successful. Providing a practical progression of information that is simple to understand and easy to put to use and benefit from, Fred H. Neu's advice and insights will be invaluable to all business owners, managers with budget responsibility, business finance and accounting professionals, management consultants, business school instructors, and business school students.
Los Angeles Wholesale Food Distribution Facilities
Author: Earl Gilbert TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
From Acorns to Warehouses
Author: Thomas C PattersonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315428199
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Thomas C. Patterson’s large-scale history of the Inland Empire of Southern California traces the social, political and economic changes in this region from the first Native American settlement 12,000 years ago to the present. Framing his discussion of this region in the general growth trajectory of California’s socio-economic history, he is able to connect landscape, resources, wealth, labor, and inequality using a Marxian framework for many key periods of the region’s history. In moving between large scale historical changes, regional adaptations and resistance to those changes, and a framework that places those responses in theoretical context, Patterson’s work allows the reader to see how inland Southern California developed into the warehouse empire of the 21st century and its prospects for the future.
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