Trade unions in the green economy : working for the environment / edited by Nora Rathzel and David Uzzell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rathzel, Nora.

Uzzell, David L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Labor unions--Political activity.

Labor unions.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted. Yet research has largely ignored labour and its responses. This book brings together sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, economists, and representatives from international and local unions based in Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Taiwan, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Together they open up a new area of research: Environmental Labour Studies.The authors ask what kind of environmental policies are unio

Contents:

Mending the breach between labour and nature : a new research field : environmental labour studies / David Uzzell, Nora Räthzel

Developing global environmental union policies through the ITUC / Anabella Rosemberg

Making the environment a trade union issue / Laura Martín Murillo

International labour organization and the environment : the way to a socially just transition for workers / Lene Olsen, Dorit Kemter

Food workers' rights as a path to a low-carbon agriculture / Peter Rossman

Moving towards eco-unionism : reflecting the Spanish experience / Begoña Maria-Tome Gil

Cars, crisis, climate change and class struggle / Lars Henriksson

Analyses of trade union environmental policies across the globe

The neo-liberal global economy and nature : re-defining the trade union role / Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert

Sustainable development or environmental justice? : questions for trade unions on land, livelihoods, and jobs / Andrew Bennie

Climate change, trade unions, and rural workers in labour-environmental alliances in the Amazon rainforest / João Paulo Candia Veiga, Scott B. Martin

From "jobs versus environment" to "green-collar jobs" : Australian trade unions and the climate change debate / Verity Burgmann

Just transition and labour environmentalism in Australia / Darryn Snell and Peter Fairbrother

Will they tie the knot? : labour and environmental trajectories in Taiwan and South Korea / Hwa-Jen Liu

Green jobs? good jobs? just jobs? USA labour unions confront climate change / Dimitris Stevis

U.S. trade unions and the challenge of "extreme energy" the case of the transcanada keystone XL pipeline / Sean Sweeney

From blue to green : a comparative study of blue-collar unions' reactions to the climate change threat in the United States and Sweden / Meg Gingrich

Trade unions and the transition from "actually existing unsustainability" : from economic crisis to a new political economy beyond growth / John Barry

Local place and global space : solidarity across borders and the question of the environment / David Uzzell and Nora Räthzel.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-27164-3

0-203-10967-8

1-283-89383-5

1-136-27165-1

9780203109670

OCLC:

823389813