Clean air and good jobs : U.S. labor and the struggle for climate justice / Todd E. Vachon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vachon, Todd E., 1976- author.

Contributor:

Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate justice--United States.

Climate justice.

Labor movement--United States.

Labor movement.

Energy transition--United States.

Energy transition.

Green New Deal--United States.

Green New Deal.

Climatic changes--Government policy--United States.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Government policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxi, 270 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Addresses the role that the U.S. labor movement has or could have in forging a 'just transition' away from dependence on fossil fuels toward a Green New Deal to address the dual crises of climate change and inequality"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. "The Biggest Threat to Our Humanity": Climate Change and the Emerging Labor

Climate Movement

Changing Climate, Changing Society

Confronting the Major Pillars of Support for the Fossil Fuel Regime

Motivation for This Research

Primary Research Questions and Methods

Studying the Labor

Climate Movement: Three Case Sites

Outline of the Chapters

The Journey Begins

2. From Donora to Dakota: A Mixed History of Labor

Environmental Relations in the United States

Understanding Labor Opposition to Environmental Protection

Understanding Labor Support for Environmental Protections

When Structure Meets Agency: Why Some Unions May Be More Likely to See Environmental Protection as a Labor Issue

From Understanding the Past to Decoding the Present

3. Industry, Interests, and Ideology: Understanding the Labor

Climate Spectrum

The Labor

The Big Picture

4. "Climate Change Is Unequivocally a Labor Issue": Defining the Problem and Identifying Targets

Enter the Labor

Collective Action Framing and Frame Alignment Processes

Defining the Problem: Diagnostic Framing in the Labor

Attributing Blame: Identifying Targets of the LCM

Building the Base: Frame Alignment Processes in the Labor

Redefinition

5. Union Workers for a Clean and Just Economy: The Prognostic Frames of a Just Transition

Just Transitions: A Brief History of the Concept

Just Transition Frames in the Labor

Explaining Variation in Just Transition Frames among Labor

Climate Movement Activists, Unions, and Social Movement Organizations

From Framing to Action

6. Educate, Agitate, Organize: The Tactical Repertoire of the Labor

Time for Some Action: Tactical Repertoires of the Labor

Climate Movement, 2014

2018

Actions Initiated by the State Partnership for Employment and Climate

Actions Initiated by Unions for a Sustainable Economy

Actions Initiated by Labor Unions for Public Energy

The Shape of Things to Come

7. Pandemics, Presidents, and Public Perceptions: Changing Opportunity Structures for the Labor

Changing Opportunity Structures for the Labor

Climate Movement, 2018

2022

Finding Movement in Labor: Labor

Climate Responses to Changing Opportunity Structures

Stakes Are High and Time Is Short

8. Conclusion: The Journey from Climate Alienation to Climate Solidarity

Just Transition and Modes of Change

Climate Justice Is Labor Justice?

Possible Futures for the Labor

Climate Movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Vachon, Todd E., 1976- Clean air and good jobs

ISBN:

9781439923214

1439923213

9781439923221

1439923221

OCLC:

1350185549

Publisher Number:

99993576688