Trade unions in the green economy
Subtitle: working for the environment
By: edited by Nora Räthzel and David Uzzell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781849714648; 9780415529846; 9780203109670
Subjects: Labor unions; Political activity; Environmental policy; Sustainable development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mending the breach between labour and nature : a new research field : environmental labour studies / David Uzzell, Nora Räthzel; title: Developing global environmental union policies through the ITUC / Anabella Rosemberg; title: Making the environment a trade union issue / Laura Martín Murillo; title: International labour organization and the environment : the way to a socially just transition for workers / Lene Olsen, Dorit Kemter; title: Food workers' rights as a path to a low-carbon agriculture / Peter Rossman; title: Moving towards eco-unionism : reflecting the Spanish experience / Begoña Maria-Tome Gil; title: Cars, crisis, climate change and class struggle / Lars Henriksson; title: Analyses of trade union environmental policies across the globe; title: The neo-liberal global economy and nature : re-defining the trade union role / Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert; title: Sustainable development or environmental justice? : questions for trade unions on land, livelihoods, and jobs / Andrew Bennie; title: Climate change, trade unions, and rural workers in labour-environmental alliances in the Amazon rainforest / João Paulo Candia Veiga, Scott B. Martin; title: From "jobs versus environment" to "green-collar jobs" : Australian trade unions and the climate change debate / Verity Burgmann; title: Just transition and labour environmentalism in Australia / Darryn Snell and Peter Fairbrother; title: Will they tie the knot? : labour and environmental trajectories in Taiwan and South Korea / Hwa-Jen Liu; title: Green jobs? good jobs? just jobs? USA labour unions confront climate change / Dimitris Stevis; title: U.S. trade unions and the challenge of "extreme energy" the case of the transcanada keystone XL pipeline / Sean Sweeney; title: 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; title: Trade unions and the transition from "actually existing unsustainability" : from economic crisis to a new political economy beyond growth / John Barry; title: Local place and global space : solidarity across borders and the question of the environment / David Uzzell and Nora Räthzel.