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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