Working on earth : class and environmental justice / edited by Christina Robertson and Jennifer Westerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robertson, Christina, 1960- editor.

Westerman, Jennifer, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice.

Human ecology.

Working class.

Working class--Social conditions.

Working class--Canada--Case studies.

Working class--United States--Case studies.

United States.

Canada.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 281 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Reno ; Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2015]

Summary:

"Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice is a collection of scholarly essays that examine the relationship between the exploitation of the working-class and environment injustices in the US and Canada. These scholars, from the fields of environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, seek to assess the current unprecedented rates of environmental degradation, expanding economic inequality, and wide-spread social injustice. Without dividing worker from wilderness, or labor from landscape, they present solutions to the global climate crisis. Ultimately, this book advances the idea of a working-class ecology that must be an integral part of achieving just and sustainable human development"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Working for a Living: Class, Justice, and Environment

1 Raining in Vietnam: The Personal Politics of Climate Justice / Charles Waugh Waugh, Charles 13

2 Working in Nature, Playing in Wilderness: Race, Class, and Environmental History in the Apostle Islands / James W. Felduan Felduan, James W. 33

3 "The Rich Go Higher": The Geography of Rural Development, Fire Management, and Environmental Justice in Utah's Wildland Urban Interface / Jason Roberts Roberts, Jason 58

4 Beyond Boom and Bust: Recovering the Place of Kootenay Working-Class Stories / Christina Robertson Robertson, Christina 78

Part II The Ways We Work: Toxic Consequences

5 Requiem for Landscape / Edie Steiner Steiner, Edie 101

6 "Clean Air, Clean Water, and Jobs Forever": Filming Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining / Terre Ryan Ryan, Terre 123

7 Bright Lights, Big City Ills: Artificial Light and the Night Shift / Paul Bogard Bogard, Paul 143

8 From Orchards to Cubicles: Work and Space in the Silicon Valley / Debra J. Salazar Salazar, Debra J. 156

Part III The Workers and the Land: Toward a Just and Sustainable Future

9 "It's a Different World": Using Oral Histories to Explore Working-Class Perceptions of Environmental Change / Peter Friederici Friederici, Peter 179

10 Working Wilderness: Ranching, Proprietary Rights to Nature, Environmental Justice, and Climate Change / Joni Adamson Adamson, Joni 197

11 "Survival is Triumph Enough": Class, Environmental Consciousness, and the Southern Memoir / Scott Hicks Hicks, Scott 219

12 Reinhabiting the Poor Farm in Memory and Landscape / Jennifer Westerman Westerman, Jennifer 240.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0874179637

OCLC:

896602590

Publisher Number:

99961985361