Labor And The Environmental Movement

Author : Brian K. Obach
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Chad Montrie
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807831977

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Making a Living by Chad Montrie Pdf

In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of

Author : Hwa-Jen Liu
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452944777

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Leverage of the Weak by Hwa-Jen Liu Pdf

Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation’s development? Despite their apparent resemblance—a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization, and structural similarities—Taiwan and South Korea were opposites in their experiences with two key social movements. South Korea followed a conventional capitalist route: labor movements challenged the system long before environmental movements did. In Taiwan, pro-environment struggles gained strength before labor activism. Liu argues that part of the explanation lies in an analysis of how movements advance their causes by utilizing different types of power. Whereas labor movements have the power of economic leverage, environmental movements depend on the power of ideology. Therefore, examining material factors versus ideational factors is crucial to understanding the successes (or failures) of social movements. Leverage of the Weak is a significant contribution to the literature on social movements, to the study of East Asian political economies, and to the progress of the comparative-historical method. It enhances knowledge of movement emergence, investigates the possibilities and obstacles involved in forging labor–environment alliances, and offers the first systematic, multilayered comparisons across movements and nations in East Asia.

Author : Heinrich Siegmann
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037937930

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The Conflicts Between Labor and Environmentalism in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States by Heinrich Siegmann Pdf

Comparison of trade union attitudes to environmental protection in Germany, Federal Republic and USA, 1965 to 1982 - describes the interest group conflict over employment policy, economic growth and energy policy; examines the social status, economic conditions and decision making processes of the two sides; discusses political integration and the role of ideology. Bibliography, statistical tables.

Author : Nora Räthzel,Dimitris Stevis,David Uzzell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Frederick H. Buttel,Charles C. Geisler,Irving W. Wiswall
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : 50,9 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 : Fred Rose
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501718731

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Coalitions across the Class Divide by Fred Rose Pdf

Too often struggles for jobs and economic justice have been divided from social goals such as peace or protecting the environment. How do we create an economy where both the process and product of work serve life-sustaining goals? Coalitions across the Class Divide argues that the seeds of this new society are being sown by those who learn to bridge working and middle-class movements and cultures. A new generation of activists is seizing a historic opportunity to organize coalitions across the labor, peace, environmental, and other movements that have previously worked in isolation or at odds. Fred Rose brings the challenges and potential of coalition organizing to life through an in-depth look at cases of conflict and cooperation. From the timber wars in the Pacific Northwest to military conversion coalitions emerging with the end of the Cold War, these cases teach practical lessons about the processes and pitfalls of organizing across movements and classes.

Author : Douglas Bevington
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 161091144X

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The Rebirth of Environmentalism by Douglas Bevington Pdf

Over the past two decades, a select group of small but highly effective grassroots organizations have achieved remarkable success in protecting endangered species and forests in the United States. The Rebirth of Environmentalism tells for the first time the story of these grassroots biodiversity groups. Author Douglas Bevington offers engaging case studies of three of the most influential biodiversity protection campaigns—the Headwaters Forest campaign, the “zero cut” campaign on national forests, and the endangered species litigation campaign exemplified by the Center for Biological Diversity—providing the reader with an in-depth understanding of the experience of being involved in grassroots activism. Based on first-person interviews with key activists in these campaigns, the author explores the role of tactics, strategy, funding, organization, movement culture, and political conditions in shaping the influence of the groups. He also examines the challenging relationship between radicals and moderate groups within the environmental movement, and addresses how grassroots organizations were able to overcome constraints that had limited the advocacy of other environmental organizations. Filled with inspiring stories of activists, groups, and campaigns that most readers will not have encountered before, The Rebirth of Environmentalism explores how grassroots biodiversity groups have had such a big impact despite their scant resources, and presents valuable lessons that can help the environmental movement as a whole—as well as other social movements—become more effective.

Author : Nora Räthzel,David Uzzell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Craig Slatin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Jeff Ordower,Lindsay Zafir
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Rachel Carson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141994000

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Pdf

Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement. It is thanks to this book, and the help of many environmentalists, that harmful pesticides such as DDT were banned from use in the US and countries around the world. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword by Carson's biographer Linda Lear.

Author : Ted Nordhaus,Michael Shellenberger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0618658254

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Break Through by Ted Nordhaus,Michael Shellenberger Pdf

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Author : Chad Montrie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520965157

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The Myth of Silent Spring by Chad Montrie Pdf

Since its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental movement. Yet environmental consciousness and environmental protest in some regions of the United States date back to the nineteenth century, with the advent of industrial manufacturing and the consequent growth of cities. As these changes transformed people's lives, ordinary Americans came to recognize the connections between economic exploitation, social inequality, and environmental problems. As the modern age dawned, they turned to labor unions, sportsmen’s clubs, racial and ethnic organizations, and community groups to respond to such threats accordingly. The Myth of Silent Spring tells this story. By challenging the canonical “songbirds and suburbs” interpretation associated with Carson and her work, the book gives readers a more accurate sense of the past and better prepares them for thinking and acting in the present.