Trade Unions in the Green Economy (eBook, ePUB)

Working for the Environment
Redaktion: Räthzel, Nora; Uzzell, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136271649
• Artikelnr.: 38244370

Autorenporträt

Nora Räthzel is Professor of Sociology at the University of Umeå, Sweden. David Uzzell is Professor of Environmental Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK. Both are directing a research programme on trade unions and workers' involvement in climate change policies at the University of Umeå, Sweden and at the University of Surrey, UK. Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and author of the bestselling Prosperity without Growth.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Intoduction 1. Mending the Breach between Labour and Nature: A Case
for Environmental Labour Studies Part 2: Trade Union Perspectives 2.
Developing Global Environmental Union Policies through the ITUC 3. Making
the Environment a Trade Union Issue 4. International Labour Organization
and the Environment - The Way to a Socially Just Transition for Workers 5.
Food Workers' Rights as a Path to a Low-Carbon Agriculture 6. Moving
Towards Eco-Unionism: Reflecting the Spanish Experience 7.Cars, Crisis,
Climate Change and Class Struggle Part 3: Analyses of Trade Union
Environmental Policies across the Globe 8. The Neo-liberal Global Economy &
Nature: Re-defining the Trade Union Role 9. Sustainable Development or
Environmental Justice? Questions for Trade Unions on Land, Livelihoods and
Jobs 10. Climate Change, Trade Unions and Rural Workers in
Labour-Environmental Alliances in the Amazon Rainforest 11. From 'Jobs
Versus Environment' to 'Green-Collar Jobs': Australian Trade Unions and the
Climate Change Debate 12. Just Transition and Labour Environmentalism in
Australia 13. Will they Tie the Knot? Labour and Environmental Trajectories
in Taiwan and South Korea 14. Green Jobs? Good Jobs? Just Jobs? USA Labour
Unions Confront Climate Change 15. U.S. Trade Unions and the Challenge of
"Extreme Energy" The Case of the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline 16. From
Blue to Green: A Comparative Study of Blue-Collar Unions' Reactions to the
Climate Change Threat in the United States and Sweden 17. Trade Unions and
the Transition from 'Actually Existing Unsustainability': from Economic
Crisis to a New Political Economy beyond Growth 18. Local Place and Global
Space: Solidarity across Borders and the Question of the Environment