The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy (The Sociological Imagination)
“InThe Treadmill of ProductionGould, Pellow, and Schnaiberg offer a theoretically driven explanation for our global environmental predicament that makes a great deal of sense. Their book represents an essential point of departure for understanding and addressing the challenges of controlling global environmental change in the twenty-first-century.”“Few works of social science prove enduring, much less prophetic. Allan Schnaiberg’s environmental sociology, first introduced in the 1980s and premised on the treadmill of production, is here refashioned for the challenges of twenty-first-century globalization.  Schnaiberg and his students reach across the generations with profound insight, demonstrated prescience, and a new vision of social justice.”“Maintaining a critical, stimulating and thought-provoking spirit, Schnaiberg, Gould and Pellow move beyond the field of environmental sociology in the volume at hand. Aiming to interpret twenty-first-century political economy, environment,  and social justice dilemmas, they explore in  novel ways the transnationalization of the treadmill of production, thus extending Schnaiberg’s original theory. Their multilevel and U.S.-focused analysis enlighten the reader with their emphasis on  global scale hegemonic as well as counterhegemonic political processes.  Neither pessimists nor optimists, they view with caution and analyze with care the potential impacts of new transnational forms of resistance. Their unique approach lays out a promising research agenda on the new politics of the environment for critical social scientists.”