In March 2013, 500 sub-contracted dock workers in Hong Kong Kwai Chung Container Port, one of Asia’s busiest ports, took over the terminal’s major traffic routes and the entrance to the company’s headquarters building.

Their 40-day strike shone a light on corporate monopolies in Hong Kong and gained widespread popular support in Hong Kong as well as from trade unions overseas, marking an important chapter in the city’s social movement unionism.