Blue and green : the drive for justice at America's port / Scott Cummings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Movement for Economic and Environmental Justice at America's Port.-- Overview.-- Law and Social Movement Coalitions at the Local Level.-- Themes and Plan of the Book.-- 2 Law in the Development of the Port.-- Local Power: Annexation and Autonomy.-- Federal Power: Industrialization in the Shadow of Regulation.-- Global Power: Free Trade, Deregulation, and the Logistics Revolution.-- Local Impact: Community, Labor, and the Environment.-- 3 The Port as a Unit of Legal Analysis.-- Local Governance.-- Nonlocal Governance.-- Preemption. 4 Resisting the Port: Activism in Separate SpheresThe Hundred Years' War: Community Mobilization Against Port Expansion.-- Labor's Municipal Strategy: Contracting around the Independent-Contractor Problem.-- The Turning Point: NRDC v. China Shipping and the Clean Air Action Plan.-- 5 Reforming the Port: The Campaign for Clean Trucks.-- The Alliance: Forming the Coalition.-- The Affirmative Phase: Mobilizing Local Law.-- The Defensive Phase: Responding to Federal Law.-- The Aftermath: Maneuvering around Preemption.-- 6 Reshaping the Industry: The Challenge to Misclassification. Chapter 5Chapter 6.-- Chapter 7.-- Index.-- Series List.

This volume examines a campaign by the labour and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles. Tracing the history of struggle in an industry at the epicentre of the global supply chain, Cummings shows how an unprecedented 'blue-green' alliance mobilised to improve working conditions for low-income drivers and air quality in nearby communities.