Peaks of Labor Unrest Among Transportation Workers in the Twentieth Century World Economy.

Transportation workers occupy key nodes in the world-scale division of labor. From a world-systems perspective, we would predict that transportation workers play an important role, both in their impact on the evolution of the world capitalist economy, and in their role within labor movements worldwide. This paper will focus on world-scale patterns of labor unrest among transportation workers in the twentieth century [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]