Huffinton Post, January 3, 2013, Thursday

Huffinton Post

January 3, 2013, Thursday

Huffinton Post (full article)

Why Ports Are the New Factories

By Louis Hyman
Assistant History Professor

Last month, union activists across the country celebrated what they saw as the latest opportunity to kickstart the moribund labor movement: a strike at Wal-Mart on Black Friday. Retail workers, or as Wal-Mart calls them, "associates," across the country were to walk out on the greatest shopping day of the year.