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Labor and the environmental movement : the quest for common ground /

Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the specter of job loss invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and most powerful social movements in the United Stat...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Obach, Brian K. (Brian Keith)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Collection:Urban and industrial environments.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Interests and alliances: economic and political determinants of labor-environmental relations
  • Labor-environmental relations in the United States: a brief history
  • Labor and environmental relations: state cases
  • "We just don't work on that": organizational range and the coalition contradiction
  • "I had a lot to learn about those issues": organizational learning among unions and environmental SMOs
  • "They're good people, you should talk to them": the role of brokers and bridges
  • "That's not the way we work": a cultural divide?
  • "We can work together": uniting the pieces.