Supply Chains and Organizing Against Precarity

Authors

Benjamin McKean, Ohio State University - Main CampusFollow

Keywords

Precarity, supply chains, logistics

Document Type

Commentary

Abstract

As the hegemonic form of international trade, transnational supply chains are potent symbols of global interdependence that can appear as both a cause of precarity, when oriented to them as a worker subjected to capital mobility and corporate domination, and as a welcome cushion to precarity, when oriented to them as a consumer seeking low prices and convenience. In this paper, I explore both how the pandemic-induced failings of transnational supply chains illuminate these contradictions of work and consumption and how we might reorient ourselves to these circumstances so that a broad coalition can more readily identify shared interests in changing them and ending precarity.

Recommended Citation

McKean, Benjamin (2022) "Supply Chains and Organizing Against Precarity," Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis: Vol. 1: Iss. 3, Article 7.
Available at: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol1/iss3/7