Industrial Labour And The Environment

Author : Federico Paolini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527548916
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrial Labour and the Environment written by Federico Paolini and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings the history of the environment together with that of work. Faced with the "great acceleration��? of the second half of the twentieth century--characterized by the crisis of the relationship between economic development and civil progress--the history of the environment has tended to separate itself from the history of work. The idea behind this book is to bridge this cultural divide, because human work is one of the main parameters of the anthropic footprint left on ecosystems and social spaces. The dimension of work is--even in a dramatically lacerating form, as shown by the events of environmental and work conflicts in the 21st century--the mirror of the impact that human activities have on the environment. From a transnational perspective, this book points out some issues of future significance: the impact of production activities on the territory and forms of environmental protection; the fractures that the environmental issue generates in the disputed spaces between groups of workers and local communities; and the problems related to the processes of reclamation and redevelopment of dismantled industrial areas.

Author : Federico Paolini
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527549968
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrial Labour and the Environment written by Federico Paolini and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings the history of the environment together with that of work. Faced with the “great acceleration” of the second half of the twentieth century—characterized by the crisis of the relationship between economic development and civil progress—the history of the environment has tended to separate itself from the history of work. The idea behind this book is to bridge this cultural divide, because human work is one of the main parameters of the anthropic footprint left on ecosystems and social spaces. The dimension of work is—even in a dramatically lacerating form, as shown by the events of environmental and work conflicts in the 21st century—the mirror of the impact that human activities have on the environment. From a transnational perspective, this book points out some issues of future significance: the impact of production activities on the territory and forms of environmental protection; the fractures that the environmental issue generates in the disputed spaces between groups of workers and local communities; and the problems related to the processes of reclamation and redevelopment of dismantled industrial areas.

Author : Nora Räthzel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1849714649
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade Unions in the Green Economy written by Nora Räthzel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : G. J. R. Linge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780415009287
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour, Environment, and Industrial Change written by G. J. R. Linge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nora Räthzel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303071909X
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies written by Nora Räthzel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Brian K. Obach
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262263993
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor and the Environmental Movement written by Brian K. Obach and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 States actually share a great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked together on a number of issues, including workplace health and safety, environmental restoration, and globalization (as in the surprising solidarity of "Teamsters and Turtles" in the anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle). Labor and the Environmental Movement examines why, when, and how labor unions and environmental organizations either cooperate or come into conflict. By exploring the interorganizational dynamics that are crucial to cooperative efforts and presenting detailed studies of labor-environmental group coalition building from around the country (examining in detail examples from Maine, New Jersey, New York, Washington, and Wisconsin), it provides insight into how these movements can be brought together to promote a just and sustainable society. Obach gives a brief history of relations between organized labor and environmental groups in the United States, explores how organizational learning can increase organizations' ability to work with others, and examines the crucial role played by "coalition brokers" who maintain links to both movements. He challenges research that attempts to explain inter-movement conflict on the basis of cultural distinctions between blue-collar workers and middle-class environmentalists, providing evidence of legal and structural constraints that better explain the organizational differences class-culture and new-social-movement theorists identify. The final chapter includes a model of the crucial determinants of cooperation and conflict that can serve as the basis for further study of inter-movement relations.

Author : Alan Gladstone
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110857782
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour Relations in a Changing Environment written by Alan Gladstone and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Penny McCall Howard
Publisher : New Ethnographies
ISBN 13 : 9781526143693
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea written by Penny McCall Howard and published by New Ethnographies. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy.

Author : Paul Hampton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317554345
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity written by Paul Hampton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It offers a rigorous critique of the mainstream neoliberal and ecological modernisation approaches, extending the concepts of Marxist social and employment relations theory to the climate realm. The book applies insights from employment relations to the political economy of climate change, developing a model for understanding trade union behaviour over climate matters. The strong interdisciplinary approach draws together lessons from both physical and social science, providing an original empirical investigation into the climate politics of the UK trade union movement from high level officials down to workplace climate representatives, from issues of climate jobs to workers’ climate action. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in environmental politics, climate change and environmental sociology.

Author : Work and Environment Initiative (New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor, Climate Change, and the Environment written by Work and Environment Initiative (New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: