Trade unions in the green economy : working for the environment / / edited by Nora Rathzel and David Uzzell.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xvi, 266 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mending the breach between labour and nature : a new research field : environmental labour studies / David Uzzell, Nora Rathzel
  • Developing global environmental union policies through the ITUC / Anabella Rosemberg
  • Making the environment a trade union issue / Laura Martin Murillo
  • International labour organization and the environment : the way to a socially just transition for workers / Lene Olsen, Dorit Kemter
  • Food workers' rights as a path to a low-carbon agriculture / Peter Rossman
  • Moving towards eco-unionism : reflecting the Spanish experience / Begona Maria-Tome Gil
  • Cars, crisis, climate change and class struggle / Lars Henriksson
  • Analyses of trade union environmental policies across the globe
  • The neo-liberal global economy and nature : re-defining the trade union role / Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert
  • Sustainable development or environmental justice? : questions for trade unions on land, livelihoods, and jobs / Andrew Bennie
  • Climate change, trade unions, and rural workers in labour-environmental alliances in the Amazon rainforest / Joao Paulo Candia Veiga, Scott B. Martin
  • From "jobs versus environment" to "green-collar jobs" : Australian trade unions and the climate change debate / Verity Burgmann
  • Just transition and labour environmentalism in Australia / Darryn Snell and Peter Fairbrother
  • Will they tie the knot? : labour and environmental trajectories in Taiwan and South Korea / Hwa-Jen Liu
  • Green jobs? good jobs? just jobs? USA labour unions confront climate change / Dimitris Stevis
  • U.S. trade unions and the challenge of "extreme energy" the case of the transcanada keystone XL pipeline / Sean Sweeney
  • From blue to green : a comparative study of blue-collar unions' reactions to the climate change threat in the United States and Sweden / Meg Gingrich
  • Trade unions and the transition from "actually existing unsustainability" : from economic crisis to a new political economy beyond growth / John Barry
  • Local place and global space : solidarity across borders and the question of the environment / David Uzzell and Nora Rathzel.