Organizing logistics behemoths like Amazon and Walmart will require the labor movement to figure out how to disrupt the flow of goods across the supply chain rather than simply organizing individual workplaces — and that requires a major rethinking of organizing strategy.

In the popular imaginary, Ford River Rouge complex has come to represent an industrial age long gone. Completed in 1928, the Rouge complex comprised ninety-three separate buildings in Dearborn, Michigan, occupying about 1.5 square miles in total. About 80,000 workers were employed there at its peak.

In addition to its vast assembly plants, the Rouge complex had its own docks, railroad tracks, electricity plant, and steel mill. All of this was surveilled and guarded by some 8,000 “service men,” the private army of thugs

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