Trade unions in the green economy working for the environment
by
Räthzel, Nora.
Title
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Trade unions in the green economy working for the environment
Author
:
Räthzel, Nora.
Publication Information
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London ; New York : Routledge : Earthscan, 2013.
Physical Description
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xvi, 266 p. : ill.
Contents
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Mending the breach between labour and nature : a new research field : environmental labour studies / David Uzzell, Nora Räthzel -- Developing global environmental union policies through the ITUC / Anabella Rosemberg -- Making the environment a trade union issue / Laura Martín 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 / Begoña 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 / João 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 Räthzel.
Subject Term
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Sustainable development.
Labor unions -- Political activity.
Environmental policy.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Added Author
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Räthzel, Nora.
Uzzell, David L.
Added Corporate Author
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ProQuest (Firm)
Electronic Access
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| Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Shelf Location | Holding Information |
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| HC79 .E5 T7318 2013 | 1005912-1001 | Ebook Central | Ebook Central | |