Trade unions in the green economy [electronic resource] : working for the environment / edited by Nora Rathzel and David Uzzell.

Contributor(s): Rathzel, Nora | Uzzell, David L | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge : Earthscan, 2013Description: xvi, 266 p. : illISBN: 9780203109670 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Sustainable development | Labor unions -- Political activity | Environmental policyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.88 LOC classification: HC79.E5 | T7318 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Mending the breach between labour and nature : a new research field : environmental labour studies / David Uzzell, Nora Rathzel -- Developing global environmental union policies through the ITUC / Anabella Rosemberg -- Making the environment a trade union issue / Laura Martin Murillo -- International labour organization and the environment : the way to a socially just transition for workers / Lene Olsen, Dorit Kemter -- Food workers' rights as a path to a low-carbon agriculture / Peter Rossman -- Moving towards eco-unionism : reflecting the Spanish experience / Begona Maria-Tome Gil -- Cars, crisis, climate change and class struggle / Lars Henriksson -- Analyses of trade union environmental policies across the globe -- The neo-liberal global economy and nature : re-defining the trade union role / Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert -- Sustainable development or environmental justice? : questions for trade unions on land, livelihoods, and jobs / Andrew Bennie -- Climate change, trade unions, and rural workers in labour-environmental alliances in the Amazon rainforest / Joao Paulo Candia Veiga, Scott B. Martin -- From "jobs versus environment" to "green-collar jobs" : Australian trade unions and the climate change debate / Verity Burgmann -- Just transition and labour environmentalism in Australia / Darryn Snell and Peter Fairbrother -- Will they tie the knot? : labour and environmental trajectories in Taiwan and South Korea / Hwa-Jen Liu -- Green jobs? good jobs? just jobs? USA labour unions confront climate change / Dimitris Stevis -- U.S. trade unions and the challenge of "extreme energy" the case of the transcanada keystone XL pipeline / Sean Sweeney -- 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 -- Trade unions and the transition from "actually existing unsustainability" : from economic crisis to a new political economy beyond growth / John Barry -- Local place and global space : solidarity across borders and the question of the environment / David Uzzell and Nora Rathzel.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mending the breach between labour and nature : a new research field : environmental labour studies / David Uzzell, Nora Rathzel -- Developing global environmental union policies through the ITUC / Anabella Rosemberg -- Making the environment a trade union issue / Laura Martin Murillo -- International labour organization and the environment : the way to a socially just transition for workers / Lene Olsen, Dorit Kemter -- Food workers' rights as a path to a low-carbon agriculture / Peter Rossman -- Moving towards eco-unionism : reflecting the Spanish experience / Begona Maria-Tome Gil -- Cars, crisis, climate change and class struggle / Lars Henriksson -- Analyses of trade union environmental policies across the globe -- The neo-liberal global economy and nature : re-defining the trade union role / Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert -- Sustainable development or environmental justice? : questions for trade unions on land, livelihoods, and jobs / Andrew Bennie -- Climate change, trade unions, and rural workers in labour-environmental alliances in the Amazon rainforest / Joao Paulo Candia Veiga, Scott B. Martin -- From "jobs versus environment" to "green-collar jobs" : Australian trade unions and the climate change debate / Verity Burgmann -- Just transition and labour environmentalism in Australia / Darryn Snell and Peter Fairbrother -- Will they tie the knot? : labour and environmental trajectories in Taiwan and South Korea / Hwa-Jen Liu -- Green jobs? good jobs? just jobs? USA labour unions confront climate change / Dimitris Stevis -- U.S. trade unions and the challenge of "extreme energy" the case of the transcanada keystone XL pipeline / Sean Sweeney -- 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 -- Trade unions and the transition from "actually existing unsustainability" : from economic crisis to a new political economy beyond growth / John Barry -- Local place and global space : solidarity across borders and the question of the environment / David Uzzell and Nora Rathzel.

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