Labor And The Environment

Author : Brian K. Obach
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262263998

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Labor and the Environmental Movement by Brian K. Obach Pdf

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 : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9280727400

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Labour and the Environment by United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

This publication presents examples of the application of technical expertise, of workplace participation, and of tools that promote workers' health and safety to problems that extend beyond the workplace into areas such as environmental protection, public health and the accountability of employers. It focuses on crucial issues ranging from climate change and energy, chemicals management, and corporate social responsibility and accountability to future involvement of workers and trade unions with the environment and with efforts to move towards sustainability. Publishing Agency: United Nations Environment Programme.

Author : Frederick H. Buttel,Charles C. Geisler,Irving W. Wiswall
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037602104

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Labor and the Environment by Frederick H. Buttel,Charles C. Geisler,Irving W. Wiswall Pdf

Author : Richard Kazis,Richard Lee Grossman
Publisher : Library Company of Philadelphia
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008769577

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Fear at Work by Richard Kazis,Richard Lee Grossman Pdf

Exposes the use of unemployment as a threat tactic to weaken environmental protection and environmental policy-making in the USA - claims that employers in industry form an interest group to manipulate public opinion against pollution control and occupational health regulations (partic. Perceived economic implications such as production cost, inflationary effects, hindrance to industrial Innovation); discusses ambivalent trade union attitudes and access to information; reviews legislation since 1860. References.

Author : Nora Räthzel,Dimitris Stevis,David Uzzell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030719098

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The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies by Nora Räthzel,Dimitris Stevis,David Uzzell Pdf

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 : Federico Paolini
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527549968

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Industrial Labour and the Environment by Federico Paolini Pdf

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 : Christopher Baldry,Jeffrey D. Hyman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Climatic change
ISBN : 0367322099

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Sustainable Work and the Environmental Crisis by Christopher Baldry,Jeffrey D. Hyman Pdf

Compared to 20 years ago, the jobs many people do today are increasingly characterised by low pay and insecurity, while countless others cope with workplace stress and ill-health. At the same time the consequences of our current model of economic activity are creating dangerous and critical changes in the planet's climate. Until recently debates around these two issues have had little contact with each other. This book demonstrates that there are definite and complex connections between degraded jobs and a degraded environment, that neither the dominant economic model nor the rate at which we exploit the planet's resources are sustainable and that the limits for both may be reached sooner rather than later. By bringing together insights from critical thinkers in a range of disciplines, the book discusses the requirements and characteristics for work to be at the same time economically, socially and environmentally sustainable and examines the potential for alternative routes to sustainable work in policies and actions that support both the natural environment and worker well-being. The book will be of interest to researchers, academics and students in the fields of HRM, labour studies, employment relations, sociology, environmental studies and sustainability. It is particularly relevant for those focusing on the link between labour and climate change. It is also highly relevant to policymakers, trade unions and NGOs looking at decent work and sustainability.

Author : Work and Environment Initiative (New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Environmental economics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078651563

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Labor, Climate Change, and the Environment by Work and Environment Initiative (New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations) Pdf

Author : Nora Räthzel,David Uzzell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849714648

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Trade Unions in the Green Economy by Nora Räthzel,David Uzzell Pdf

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 : Zhidong Hao,Sheying Chen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461422242

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Social Issues in China by Zhidong Hao,Sheying Chen Pdf

Since 1978, the opening up and reform in China has brought tremendous economic and social changes. While China’s economic progress has been commendable, the social problems that go with economic changes have raised serious concerns. Some of those concerns are related to gender, ethnic, labor, and environmental issues. This book is about what has happened in these arenas in China since the opening up and reform in 1978. The study of gender, ethnicity, labor, and environment touches on some of the fundamental problems of modernization, especially the development of individuals and groups. So even though gender, ethnicity, labor, and environment seem to be separate issues, they are in fact related in some fundamental ways. That’s what this book will explore as well. To understand is one thing and to do is another. This book also incorporates studies of NGO practices to see how NGOs have helped in transforming gender, ethnic, labor, and environment interplay. Our study of NGOs in helping improve such interplay sheds light on how specifically civil society can prod the state to transform social relations for the better. This book is an attempt to assess the changes, both positive and negative, in gender, ethnic, ethnic, and environmental relations in China especially in the past 30 years of opening up and reform, especially regarding national identity formation. ​

Author : Federico Paolini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527548910

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Industrial Labour and the Environment by Federico Paolini Pdf

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 : Craig Slatin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351868013

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Environmental Unions by Craig Slatin Pdf

During the 1970s and 1980s, a hazardous waste management industry emerged in the U.S., driven by government and polluting industry responses to a hazardous waste crisis. In 1979, labor unions began to seek federal health and safety protections for workers in that industry and for firefighters responding to hazardous materials fires. Those efforts led to a worker health and safety section in the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. The legislation mandated regulation of hazardous waste operations and emergency response worker protection, and establishment of a national health and safety training grant program - which became the Worker Education and Training Program (WETP).Craig Slatin provides a history of labor's success on the coattails of the environmental movement and in the middle of a rightward shift in American politics. He explores how the WETP established a national worker training effort across industrial sectors, with case studies on the health and safety training programs of two unions in the WETP - the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers and the Laborers' Union. Lessons can be learned from one of the last major worker health and safety/environmental protection victories of the 1960s-1980s reform era, coming at the end of the golden age of regulation and just before the new era of deregulation and market dominance. Slatin's analysis calls for a critical survey of the social and political tasks facing those concerned about worker and community health and environmental protection in order to make a transition toward just and sustainable production.

Author : Joseph Lisowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000660944

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Environment and Labor in the Caribbean by Joseph Lisowski Pdf

The Caribbean Perspectives series began as a response to the need for scholarly investigations into social, scientific, and economic conditions affecting the least understood, or written about, part of the Americas. In this second volume the authors have included explorations of aspects of management and climate; as well as social, literary, and educational concerns in the eastern Caribbean, along with an extended study of the labor situation in the U.S. Virgin Islands.The opening chapter on resource management training in the Caribbean underscores the need for cooperation among eastern Caribbean universities and provides a practical model for implementation. This is followed by a significant study of rainfall patterns that could influence economic and cultural planning in the Virgin Islands. School environment is assessed in the next chapter, and educators will see how the quality of social support and interactions function in organizational contexts, especially as they relate to teacher morale.How fact becomes fiction is chronicled in a chapter dealing with Samuel Selvon's autobiographical novel, A Brighter Sun. The media clearly had a se-rious problem separating fact from fiction in their reporting of the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo in St. Croix. The next chapter investigates the causes of looting following that storm and lays to rest some widespread misconceptions.The final chapters focus on the labor movements in the Virgin Islands, both from historical and sociological points of view. These chapters not only help explain certain tendencies in the Caribbean work force but also outline social implications for the future. Some of these findings are bound to be controversial, such as the author's contention that the legacy of slavery is still being felt. This volume of Caribbean Perspectives offers both factual accounts and challenging insights into the diversity of Caribbean life and culture. The ideas and data found here will reverberate and suggest a host of analogous circumstances elsewhere. This volume, and the series as such, will interest students of the Caribbean, Latin America, and social development in the Third World.

Author : Jeff Ordower,Lindsay Zafir
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781620978221

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Power Lines by Jeff Ordower,Lindsay Zafir Pdf

The essential anthology on the most effective ways to organize a labor movement for environmental justice, from leading organizers in the field The corporate elite have long pitted climate and labor movements against each other through a “jobs vs. the environment” narrative that maximizes profits. But over the last few years, labor unions and climate organizers have been pushing back against this framework and organizing for a real just transition. Featuring contributions from key organizers in climate justice and labor, Power Lines tackles the most pressing questions facing those who are trying to build a movement for economic and environmental justice. The collection provides practical organizing models and strategies as well as inspiration for the possibility of making change on climate. Power Lines moves beyond an analysis of the class politics of climate change or the strategic imperative of federal climate legislation, making the case for the urgency of a robust labor–climate justice movement. It also shows us how we can build that movement by sharing some of the most creative and effective organizing happening on the ground right now.

Author : Erik Loomis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316445419

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Empire of Timber by Erik Loomis Pdf

The battles to protect ancient forests and spotted owls in the Northwest splashed across the evening news in the 1980s and early 1990s. Empire of Timber re-examines this history to demonstrate that workers used their unions to fight for a healthy workplace environment and sustainable logging practices that would allow themselves and future generations the chance to both work and play in the forests. Examining labor organizations from the Industrial Workers of the World in the 1910s to unions in the 1980s, Empire of Timber shows that conventional narratives of workers opposing environmental protection are far too simplistic and often ignore the long histories of natural resource industry workers attempting to protect their health and their futures from the impact of industrial logging. Today, when workers fear that environmental restrictions threaten their jobs, learning the history of alliances between unions and environmentalists can build those conversations in the present.