Trade Unions in the Green Economy : Working for the Environment.

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Räthzel, Nora
Otros Autores: Uzzell, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Temas:
Sustainable development.
Labor unions > Political activity.
Environmental policy.
Développement durable.
Syndicats > Activité politique.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale.
sustainable development.
environmental policy.
Environmental policy
Labor unions > Political activity
Sustainable development
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mending the breach between labour and nature : a new research field : environmental labour studies / David Uzzell, Nora Räthzel
  • Developing global environmental union policies through the ITUC / Anabella Rosemberg
  • Making the environment a trade union issue / Laura Martín 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 / Begoña 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 / João 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 Räthzel.

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