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Labor-environmental Coalitions - Lessons from a Louisiana Petrochemical Region (Paperback)
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Labor-environmental Coalitions - Lessons from a Louisiana Petrochemical Region (Paperback)
Series: Work, Health and Environment Series
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In 1984, the oil, chemical and atomic workers began a 5-year
campaign to win back the jobs of its members locked out by the BASF
Corp. in Geismar, Louisiana. The multiscale campaign involved
coalitions with local environmentalists as well as international
solidarity from environmental and religious organizations. The
local coalition which helped break the lockout was maintained and
expanded in the 1990s. This alliance is one of numerous
labor-community coalitions to emerge increasingly over the past 20
years.""Labor-Environmental Coalitions: Lessons from a Louisiana
Petrochemical Region"" traces the development of the Louisiana
Labor-Neighbor Project from 1985 to the present, within the context
of a long history of divisions between labor and community in the
U.S. The Project continued after the lockout, thriving during
1990s, expanding from one community to four counties to include 20
local member organizations, and broadening its agenda from the
original jobs crisis and pollution problems to address a wide range
of worker, environmental health, and economic justice issues.""
Labor-Environmental Coalitions"" explores the dynamics of the
Louisiana coalition to offer lessons for other coalition efforts.
The book seeks to understand coalitions as a necessary strategy to
counteract the dominant forces of capitalist development. The
author contends that the Labor-Neighbor Project, like
labor-community coalitions generally, created a unique blend of
politics shaped by the geographic nature industry's politics; by
the relative openness of government; and by the class experience of
labor and community members.The Louisiana Project demonstrates that
for labor-community coalitions to thrive they must broaden their
agenda, strengthen their leadership and coalition-building skills,
and develop access to multiscale resources. The author argues that
for labor-community coalitions to have longer term political
impact, they should adopt an explicitly progressive approach by
building a broader class and cultural leadership, and by demanding
state and corporate accountability on economic, public health, and
environmental justice issues.
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