Jake Alimahomed-Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 81930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jake Alimahomed-Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jake |
| FAMILY NAME | Alimahomed-Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | ALIMAHOMED-WILSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Long Beach |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1456-1779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
E‐commerce and Labor
This entry examines the impact of electronic commerce on work and labor. It highlights the changes that e‐commerce has introduced to the warehousing and parcel delivery sectors and how digital surveillance and the demand to work quickly have eroded the working conditions across these sectors
Workers’ Movements and the Global Supply Chain: Introduction
The global supply chain crisis during the pandemic provides an opportunity to reflect on the vulnerabilities of the just-in-time model of capitalist production. As capital studies and prepares for risks to the global supply chain, so must workers if we are make global systemic changes needed to reverse the many catastrophic crises facing humanity. The articles in this forum re-examine unions and global workers organizing in seven countries to mov…
Anarchist and Anarchistic Anti-Systemic Movements in World-Systems Perspective: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Non-State Spaces
While world-systems anti-systemic movement scholarship has briefly acknowledged the existence of anti-state “cultural” movements—namely, autonomous indigenous movements in the periphery and anarchist worker movements in the core and semi-periphery—it relegates them to secondary importance to statist “political” movements. In this paper, we provide an intervention in the world-systems anti-systemic movements literature by centering anti-state move…
Teamsters Confront Amazon: An Early Assessment
Choke points et lutte antiraciste
Le mouvement Black Lives Matter a ravivé la mobilisation antiraciste dans d'innombrables lieux de travail à travers les États-Unis. Deux semaines après le meurtre de George Floyd, le 25 mai 2020, les membres de la Section 13 de l'International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) bloquent les ports de Los Angeles et Long Beach pour protester contre le racisme systémique. Quelques semaines plus tard, le 19 juin, jour du Juneteenth National Indepen…
Surveilling Amazon’s warehouse workers: Racism, retaliation, and worker resistance amid the pandemic
Drawing on insights from Cedric Robinson’s theory of racial capitalism, we analyse black and Latinx blue-collar warehouse workers’ concerns about health and safety in Amazon’s warehouses as well as their collective efforts to organise and improve working conditions during the pandemic. The pandemic increased the demand for home-delivered e-commerce, bringing Amazon’s (directly employed) global workforce to over 1.2 million workers and making Amaz…
Unfree shipping: The racialisation of logistics labour
The logistics revolution has transformed the ways that goods are produced and transported around the world, producing numerous deleterious outcomes for workers, including the deterioration of wages and labour standards, attacks on unions, and the increase of precarious contingent labour conditions. A related, yet underexplored, process related to the logistics revolution has been the role of racialisation in further amplifying the deterioration o…
Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain
The Logistics of Occupation: Israel's Colonial Suppression of Palestine's Goods Movement Infrastructure
This article argues that Israel's colonial domination of Palestine's logistics and goods movement infrastructure (ports, roads, and supply chain) remains a central, yet understudied, aspect of both the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine and the broader Zionist settler colonial project. Israel's targeted military destruction of Palestine's key logistical nodes (Gaza's seaport and airport) coupled with Israel's devastating immobilization progr…
Logistics Revolution
Black longshoremen and the fight for equality in an 'anti-racist' union
This paper uncovers the contradictions between official 'anti-racist' union principles and local practice by exploring the ways that racism shaped a racially progressive union's politics. Using interview material, it centres on the past and present experiences of African American union members working as longshoremen in southern California. Contrary to accounts that locate racism and the racial division of workers solely as a practice utilised by…
Men along the shore: Working-class masculinities in crisis
Confronting Racism, Capitalism, and Ecological Degradation: Urban Farming and the Struggle for Social Justice in Black Los Angeles
This article examines the role of capitalism in the ecological crisis and the jobs crisis facing the Los Angeles African American community. We argue that sectors of Black Americans, like many people in the Global South, are being pushed out of the formal system of capitalist employment. To address this, we look to delinking and the development of economic experiments rooted in community economic self-determination based on anti-capitalist values…
The Logistics of Occupation: Israel's Colonial Suppression of Palestine's Goods Movement Infrastructure
This article argues that Israel's colonial domination of Palestine's logistics and goods movement infrastructure (ports, roads, and supply chain) remains a central, yet understudied, aspect of both the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine and the broader Zionist settler colonial project. Israel's targeted military destruction of Palestine's key logistical nodes (Gaza's seaport and airport) coupled with Israel's devastating immobilization progr…
Confronting Racism, Capitalism, and Ecological Degradation: Urban Farming and the Struggle for Social Justice in Black Los Angeles
This article examines the role of capitalism in the ecological crisis and the jobs crisis facing the Los Angeles African American community. We argue that sectors of Black Americans, like many people in the Global South, are being pushed out of the formal system of capitalist employment. To address this, we look to delinking and the development of economic experiments rooted in community economic self-determination based on anti-capitalist values…
Men along the shore: Working-class masculinities in crisis
Men along the shore: Working-class masculinities in crisis
Confronting Racism, Capitalism, and Ecological Degradation: Urban Farming and the Struggle for Social Justice in Black Los Angeles
This article examines the role of capitalism in the ecological crisis and the jobs crisis facing the Los Angeles African American community. We argue that sectors of Black Americans, like many people in the Global South, are being pushed out of the formal system of capitalist employment. To address this, we look to delinking and the development of economic experiments rooted in community economic self-determination based on anti-capitalist values…
Black longshoremen and the fight for equality in an 'anti-racist' union
This paper uncovers the contradictions between official 'anti-racist' union principles and local practice by exploring the ways that racism shaped a racially progressive union's politics. Using interview material, it centres on the past and present experiences of African American union members working as longshoremen in southern California. Contrary to accounts that locate racism and the racial division of workers solely as a practice utilised by…
Logistics Revolution
The Logistics of Occupation: Israel's Colonial Suppression of Palestine's Goods Movement Infrastructure
This article argues that Israel's colonial domination of Palestine's logistics and goods movement infrastructure (ports, roads, and supply chain) remains a central, yet understudied, aspect of both the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine and the broader Zionist settler colonial project. Israel's targeted military destruction of Palestine's key logistical nodes (Gaza's seaport and airport) coupled with Israel's devastating immobilization progr…
Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain
Unfree shipping: The racialisation of logistics labour
The logistics revolution has transformed the ways that goods are produced and transported around the world, producing numerous deleterious outcomes for workers, including the deterioration of wages and labour standards, attacks on unions, and the increase of precarious contingent labour conditions. A related, yet underexplored, process related to the logistics revolution has been the role of racialisation in further amplifying the deterioration o…
Surveilling Amazon’s warehouse workers: Racism, retaliation, and worker resistance amid the pandemic
Drawing on insights from Cedric Robinson’s theory of racial capitalism, we analyse black and Latinx blue-collar warehouse workers’ concerns about health and safety in Amazon’s warehouses as well as their collective efforts to organise and improve working conditions during the pandemic. The pandemic increased the demand for home-delivered e-commerce, bringing Amazon’s (directly employed) global workforce to over 1.2 million workers and making Amaz…
Workers’ Movements and the Global Supply Chain: Introduction
The global supply chain crisis during the pandemic provides an opportunity to reflect on the vulnerabilities of the just-in-time model of capitalist production. As capital studies and prepares for risks to the global supply chain, so must workers if we are make global systemic changes needed to reverse the many catastrophic crises facing humanity. The articles in this forum re-examine unions and global workers organizing in seven countries to mov…
Anarchist and Anarchistic Anti-Systemic Movements in World-Systems Perspective: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Non-State Spaces
While world-systems anti-systemic movement scholarship has briefly acknowledged the existence of anti-state “cultural” movements—namely, autonomous indigenous movements in the periphery and anarchist worker movements in the core and semi-periphery—it relegates them to secondary importance to statist “political” movements. In this paper, we provide an intervention in the world-systems anti-systemic movements literature by centering anti-state move…
Teamsters Confront Amazon: An Early Assessment
Choke points et lutte antiraciste
Le mouvement Black Lives Matter a ravivé la mobilisation antiraciste dans d'innombrables lieux de travail à travers les États-Unis. Deux semaines après le meurtre de George Floyd, le 25 mai 2020, les membres de la Section 13 de l'International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) bloquent les ports de Los Angeles et Long Beach pour protester contre le racisme systémique. Quelques semaines plus tard, le 19 juin, jour du Juneteenth National Indepen…
E‐commerce and Labor
This entry examines the impact of electronic commerce on work and labor. It highlights the changes that e‐commerce has introduced to the warehousing and parcel delivery sectors and how digital surveillance and the demand to work quickly have eroded the working conditions across these sectors
Political science (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works)