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.

In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises. They provide an invaluable overview of a fast-growing research field that bridges the social and natural sciences. Chapters provide detailed perspectives of environmental labour studies, environmental struggles of workers, indigenous peoples, farmers and commoners in the Global South and North. The relations within and between organisations that hinder or promote environmental strategies are analysed, including the relations between workers and environmental organisations, NGOs, feminist and community movements.

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.

In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises. They provide an invaluable overview of a fast-growing research field that bridges the social and natural sciences. Chapters provide detailed perspectives of environmental labour studies, environmental struggles of workers, indigenous peoples, farmers and commoners in the Global South and North. The relations within and between organisations that hinder or promote environmental strategies are analysed, including the relations between workers and environmental organisations, NGOs, feminist and community movements.

This vital new collection presents new Marxist-Feminist analyses of Capitalism as a gendered, racialized social formation that shapes and is shaped by specific nature-labour relationships. Leaving behind former overtly structuralist thinking, Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today interweaves strands of ecofeminism and intersectional analyses to develop an understanding of the relations of production and the production of nature through the interdependencies of gender, class, race and colonial relations. With contributions and analyses from scholars and theorists in both the global North and South, this volume offers a truly international lens that reveals the the vitality of contemporary global Marxist-Feminist thinking, as well as its continued relevance to feminist struggles across the globe.

Erster Abschnitt Kultur und Ideologie 19 Cultural Studies: Stuart Hall 21 Das Projekt Ideologietheorie: Wolfgang Fritz Haug 31 Standpunkt der Arbeit und Standpunkt der Arbeitenden 38 Analysen kultureller und ideologischer Praxen 40 Nationale Identitat 40 Kulturelle Identitat 42 Alltagskulturen 45 Kultur und Minderheiten 55 Schlussfolgerungen 59 Zweiter Abschnitt Anmerkungen zu Theorien uber die Nation 63 Enzyklopadien 63 Bestimmungen der Nation 68 Objektive oder subjektive Grundlagen 68 Exkurs: Die deutsche Nation als Urvolk 71 Das Nationalgefuhl 74 Die Nation als vorgestellte politische Gemeinschaft 76 Funktionen 78 Formbestimmungen 80 Exkurs: Das nationale Subjekt als Produkt der Nationalerziehung 87 Homogenisierung 89 5 Nation als Produktion von Anderen 94 Exkurs: Feindbilder und Unterordnung 98 Universalistische und partikularistische Nation 101 Widerspruche des Universalismus 101 Widerspruche des Partikularismus 107 Schi ussfolgerungen 110 Dritter Abschnitt Die erste Wende: Deutsche Frage und "Auslander" 113 Einleitung 113 Zur Methode 113 Zum Material 118 Prolog: Vom "Volk" zur "Nation" 122 "Nationale Identitat" in den achtziger Jahren 126 Politisch-okonomischer Kontext 126 "Die Diskussion um die deutsche Identitat ist eroffnet" 130 Exkurs: Minderheitenpolitik in der Weimarer Republik 133 Mit Vaterland gegen Nationalismus und Anti-Amerikanismus 135 Deutschland als Opfer- Freies Deutschland? 137 Schicksal als Grundlage von Politik 140 Abschiede vom Einheitsstaat 143 Wiedervereinigung und deutsches Selbstbewusstsein 148 Der liberale Diskurs uber die Nation 152 Die Einheit der deutschen Nation im liberalen Diskurs 153 Exkurs: Herstellung der deutschen Einheit im Faschismus 159 Zwischenergebnis 164 Konstruktion der Nation von rechts 165 Bilder von "Auslandern" im liberalen Diskurs 170 Die Toleranzschwelle 171"

This vital new collection presents new Marxist-Feminist analyses of Capitalism as a gendered, racialized social formation that shapes and is shaped by specific nature-labour relationships. Leaving behind former overtly structuralist thinking, Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today interweaves strands of ecofeminism and intersectional analyses to develop an understanding of the relations of production and the production of nature through the interdependencies of gender, class, race and colonial relations. With contributions and analyses from scholars and theorists in both the global North and South, this volume offers a truly international lens that reveals the the vitality of contemporary global Marxist-Feminist thinking, as well as its continued relevance to feminist struggles across the globe.