Empire-Logistics & Global Supply Chains Mapping international networks of solidarity

Empire-Logistics & Global Supply Chains Mapping international networks of solidarity
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Gifford Hartman & Frank McMurray
This presentation examines the modern system of production and distribution of goods along vast supply chains, a "factory without walls," that encircle the planet. This system has decimated the ability of workers across the world to fight for better pay, benefits and working conditions. Gifford Hartman (an adult education teacher) and Frank McMurray (a sailor with the Inlandboatmen's Union-ILWU) are part of the Empire-Logistics Mapping Project which is creating an online, interactive map to chart commodity chains across the globe. The Project’s goal: Give workers information they need to create solidarity up and down the supply chain, and across sectors, borders – and even oceans – as they struggle against rampant exploitation.