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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Obach, Brian K. (Brian Keith)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Series:Urban and industrial environments.
Subjects:
Labor unions > United States.
Environmentalism > United States.
Coalitions.
Interorganizational relations.
Social movements.
Pressure groups.
Organizational sociology.
Relations interorganisationnelles.
Mouvements sociaux.
Groupes de pression.
Sociologie des organisations.
social movements.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Coalitions
Environmentalism
Interorganizational relations
Labor unions
Organizational sociology
Pressure groups
Social movements
United States
ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
ECONOMICS/Labor Studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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