Labor Climate Change And The Environment

Author : Chris Baldry,Jeff Hyman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000406573

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Sustainable Work and the Environmental Crisis by Chris Baldry,Jeff 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 : 43,9 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 : Nithya Natarajan,Laurie Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000377880

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Climate Change in the Global Workplace by Nithya Natarajan,Laurie Parsons Pdf

This book offers a timely exploration of how climate change manifests in the global workplace. It draws together accounts of workers, their work, and the politics of resistance in order to enable us to better understand how the impacts of climate change are structured by the economic and social processes of labour. Focusing on nine empirically grounded cases of labour under climate change, this volume links the tools and methods of critical labour studies to key debates over climate change adaptation and mitigation in order to highlight the active nature of struggles in the climate-impacted workplace. Spanning cases including commercial agriculture in Turkey, labour unions in the UK, and brick kilns in Cambodia, this collection offers a novel lens on the changing climate, showing how both the impacts of climate change and adaptations to it emerge through the prism of working lives. Drawing together scholars from anthropology, political economy, geography, and development studies, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change adaptation, labour studies, and environmental justice. More generally, it will be of interest to anybody seeking to understand how the changing climate is changing the terms, conditions, and politics of the global workplace.

Author : Nora Räthzel,David Uzzell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Matto Mildenberger
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262357289

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Carbon Captured by Matto Mildenberger Pdf

A comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking. Climate change threatens the planet, and yet policy responses have varied widely across nations. Some countries have undertaken ambitious programs to stave off climate disaster, others have done little, and still others have passed policies that were later rolled back. In this book, Matto Mildenberger opens the “black box” of domestic climate politics, examining policy making trajectories in several countries and offering a theoretical explanation for national differences in the climate policy process. Mildenberger introduces the concept of double representation—when carbon polluters enjoy political representation on both the left (through industrial unions fearful of job loss) and the right (through industrial business associations fighting policy costs)—and argues that different climate policy approaches can be explained by the interaction of climate policy preferences and domestic institutions. He illustrates his theory with detailed histories of climate politics in Norway, the United States, and Australia, along with briefer discussions of policies in in Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Canada. He shows that Norway systematically shielded politically connected industrial polluters from costs beginning with its pioneering carbon tax; the United States, after the failure of carbon reduction legislation, finally acted on climate reform through a series of Obama administration executive actions; and Australia's Labor and Green parties enacted an emissions trading scheme, which was subsequently repealed by a conservative Liberal party government. Ultimately, Mildenberger argues for the importance of political considerations in understanding the climate policymaking process and discusses possible future policy directions.

Author : Carla Lipsig-Mummé,Stephen McBride
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781553394341

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Work in a Warming World by Carla Lipsig-Mummé,Stephen McBride Pdf

Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts. The world of work - goods, services, and resources - produces most of the greenhouse gases created by human activity. In engaging essays, contributors demonstrate how the world of work and the labour movement need to become involved in the struggle to slow global warming, and the ways in which environmental and economic policies need to be linked dynamically in order to effect positive change. Addressing the dichotomy of competing public policies in a Canadian context, Work in a Warming World presents ways of creating an effective response to global warming and key building blocks toward a national climate strategy.

Author : Jeff Ordower,Lindsay Zafir
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Nora Räthzel,Dimitris Stevis,David Uzzell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1905322232

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The Environment and Climate Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stuart Rosewarne,James Goodman,Rebecca Pearse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135071660

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Climate Action Upsurge by Stuart Rosewarne,James Goodman,Rebecca Pearse Pdf

In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda. Evidence of global warming and accelerating greenhouse gas emissions created a new sense of urgency and, despite consensus on the need for action, the growing failure of international climate policy engendered new political space for social movements. By 2007 a ‘climate justice’ movement was surfacing and developing a strong critique of existing official climate policies and engaging in new forms of direct action to assert the need for reduced extraction and burning of fossil fuels. Climate Action Upsurge offers an insight into this important period in climate movement politics, drawing on the perspectives of activists who were directly engaged in the mobilisation process. Through the interpretation of these perspectives the book illustrates important lessons for the climate movement today. In developing its examination of the climate action upsurge, the book focuses on individual activists involved in direct action ‘Climate Camps’ in Australia, while drawing comparisons and highlighting links with climate campaigns in other locales. The book should be of interest to scholars and researchers in climate change, environmental sociology, politics, policy and activism.

Author : Peter J. Glynn,Timothy Cadman,Tek Narayan Maraseni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1786430118

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Business, Organized Labour and Climate Policy by Peter J. Glynn,Timothy Cadman,Tek Narayan Maraseni Pdf

This impartial study analyses the role of employer's organisations and trade unions in climate change policy and its impacts on the labour market. The policies of government to manage greenhouse gas emissions will require business to change its product and service delivery arrangements, which in turn means labour requirements will also change. The book also considers whether labour market issues should be explicit in the theoretical framework of ecological modernisation as it guides the policy development process.

Author : James P. Barrett,J. Andrew Hoerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : NWU:35556037372794

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Clean Energy and Jobs by James P. Barrett,J. Andrew Hoerner Pdf

Author : Marjorie Griffin Cohen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315407890

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Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries by Marjorie Griffin Cohen Pdf

Climate change is at the forefront of ideas about public policy, the economy and labour issues. However, the gendered dimensions of climate change and the public policy issues associated with it in wealthy nations are much less understood. Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries covers a wide range of issues dealing with work and working life. The book demonstrates the gendered distinctions in both experiences of climate change and the ways that public policy deals with it. The book draws on case studies from the UK, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Spain and the US to address key issues such as: how gendered distinctions affect the most vulnerable; paid and unpaid work; and activism on climate change. It is argued that including gender as part of the analysis will lead to more equitable and stronger societies as solutions to climate change advance. This volume will be of great relevance to students, scholars, trade unionists and international organisations with an interest in climate change, gender, public policy and environmental studies.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Office Bureau International du Travail
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Clean energy industries
ISBN : 9221268683

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Sustainable Development, Decent Work and Green Jobs by International Labour Office Pdf

Addresses two of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century: achieving environmental sustainability and turning the vision of decent work for all into a reality. Shows that not only are both challenges urgent, but they are also intimately linked and will have to be addressed together. Demonstrates that while it is certain that environmental degradation and climate change will increasingly require enterprises and labour markets to react and adjust, the goal of environmentally sustainable economies will not be attained without the active contribution of the world of work. Mentions the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), the Benzene Convention, 1971 (No. 136), the Human Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142), the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144), the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), the Chemicals Convention, 1990 (No. 170), and the Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents Convention, 1993 (No. 174).