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Trade Unions in the Green Economy - Working for the Environment (Hardcover)
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Trade Unions in the Green Economy - Working for the Environment (Hardcover)
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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 unions in different countries and
sectors developing. How do they aim to reconcile the protection of
jobs with the protection of the environment? What are the forms of
cooperation developing between trade unions and environmental
movements, especially the so-called Red-Green alliances? Under what
conditions are unions striving to create climate change policies
that transcend the economic system? Where are they trying to find
solutions that they see as possible within the present
socio-economic conditions? What are the theoretical and practical
implications of trade unions' "Just Transition", and the problems
and perspectives of "Green Jobs"? The authors also explore how food
workers' rights would contribute to low carbon agriculture, the
role workers' identities play in union climate change policies, and
the difficulties of creating solidarity between unions across the
global North and South. Trade Unions in the Green Economy opens the
climate change debate to academics and trade unionists from a range
of disciplines in the fields of labour studies, environmental
politics, environmental management, and climate change policy. It
will also be useful for environmental organisations, trade unions,
business, and politicians.
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