Thinking Beyond the Workplace: Unions, Logistics and International Solidarity in a British Port

超越工作场所的思考：英国港口的工会、物流和国际团结

• 批准号: 2743881
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2743881
• 关键词: Thinking; Beyond; Workplace; Unions; Logistics

This project will investigate the extent to which dock workers engage with international causes through industrial action and the forces that either propel or prevent them from doing so. To do this, I will use a combination of archival and ethnographic research, focusing on the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk, England. Historically, dock worker sand their unions have been fundamental to struggles around international issues. This is due to their positions within key nodes of a global system of logistics, giving them a unique power as workers to meaningfully engage in international politics through the derailing of a nation's supply-chains. Peter Cole documents this in his analysis of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in San Francisco and their refusal to handle goods from apartheid South Africa. Recently, dockworkers' organisations in Genoa and Livorno, Italy, have refused to handle goods from Israel. In Britain, dockworkers and their unions have gone on strike to aid international causes as they did in1920, refusing to board arms for the Polish army in the Polish-Soviet War. They have also done the opposite, as when the National Union of Seamen (NUS) colluded with the state to ensure that Indian sailors could not settle within the United Kingdom in the 1920s. It is this variegated history that makes Britain an interesting case study, and Felixstowe - the busiest port in the United Kingdom with a largely unionised workforce -the most vital site for this project.

该项目将调查码头工人通过劳工行动参与国际事业的程度，以及推动或阻止他们这样做的力量。为了做到这一点，我将结合档案和人种学研究，重点关注英国萨福克的费利克斯托港。从历史上看，码头工人和他们的工会一直是围绕国际问题斗争的根本。这是因为他们在全球物流体系的关键节点中的地位，赋予他们作为工人的独特力量，通过一国供应链的脱轨，有意义地参与国际政治。彼得·科尔在他对旧金山国际长岸和仓库联盟的分析中记录了这一点，以及他们拒绝处理来自种族隔离制度下的南非的货物。最近，意大利热那亚和利沃诺的码头工人组织拒绝处理来自以色列的货物。在英国，码头工人和他们的工会举行了罢工，以帮助国际事业，就像他们在1920年所做的那样，拒绝在波苏战争中为波兰军队提供武器。他们也做了相反的事情，比如20世纪20年代，全国海员工会(NUS)与国家勾结，以确保印度水手不能在英国境内定居。正是这种错综复杂的历史使英国成为一个有趣的案例研究，而费利克斯托--英国最繁忙的港口，拥有基本上加入工会的劳动力--是这个项目最重要的地点。