Introduction: Expanding the Boundaries of Environmental Labour Studies

Räthzel, Nora; Stevis, Dimitris; Uzzell, David

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“…Trade unions' relationship to the environment is an area of increasing interdisciplinary interest including contributions from industrial relations scholars and the emerging field of environmental labor studies (Flanagan and Goods, 2022;Räthzel et al, 2021;Ringqvist, 2022;Uzzell and Räthzel, 2013a). Prominent accounts in the literature, which are predominantly qualitative studies with a particular focus on the level of union policy, point to recurring dilemmas between jobs and environmental protection (Räthzel and Uzzell, 2011;Thomas and Doerflinger, 2020).…”

Section: Union Membership and Environmental Spending Support In Compa...mentioning

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A world systems analysis of union membership and support for government spending on environmental protection

Ringqvist

2024

Journal of Industrial Relations

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This article contributes to debates about trade unions and the environment by studying international variation in the association between union membership and support for government spending on environmental protection. Building on research which demonstrates a positive membership effect on support for environmental protection, the article extends the geographical scope beyond the more economically developed contexts studied previously. Using World Systems Theory as a comparative framework, distinguishing between core, semi-periphery, and periphery states, the article explores whether the positive membership effect extends beyond more affluent core states and reveals an intriguing empirical puzzle: while public support for environmental spending is substantially weaker in core states relative to non-core states, the latter being subject to more extensive environmental threats, the reverse holds for the membership effect on environmental spending support which instead tends to be more positive in core states. Union membership thus tends to have the largest positive impact on environmental spending support in countries where public support for such spending tends to be lower. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings for the global effort to address an ongoing environmental crisis are discussed by considering the notion of a solidarity effect.

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A world systems analysis of union membership and support for government spending on environmental protection

Ringqvist

2024

Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…Considering the agency of industrial, high-skilled workers in the post-carbon transition as a form of care work, as proposed by Carr, is both refreshing and risky. On the one hand, looking at the present conjuncture from a historical perspective, we should note that ‘caring for the planet’ is not a new course of action for industrial workers, as they have challenged the jobs versus environment construction repeatedly, at different times and in different places along the past half century (Barca, 2012; Räthzel et al, 2021). This political tradition within trade union movements currently finds expression in the ILO/ITUC Just Transition strategy, which focuses almost entirely on the relevance of industrial workers in carbon-intensive sectors (such as energy, transport, and heavy industry) as active participants in and beneficiaries of the post-carbon transition (Barca, 2012).…”

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Dimensions of repair work

Barca

2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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“…Since at least the Kyoto Conference in 1997 international labor organizations have introduced the concept to mainstream climate debates. As Räthzel et al (2021a) claim, unions' engagement in the first conference on unions and the environment in 2006 in Nairobi and in the following COPs marked a turning point for unions and their "policies and actions… with regards to the environment" (12).…”

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The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis

Kleinheisterkamp-González

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Geographers have increasingly studied labor and climate change, albeit not in a unitary field. I propose to address this by outlining an environmental labor geography – that draws from labor geography’s tenets. Moreover, I agree with other scholars that organized worker-led mass movements will be key to solving the climate crisis. Thus, I argue that labor agency is a useful tool that centers workers’ actions. However, to derive useful generalizations for struggles on the ground, the concept should be delimited to organized expressions of agency. Finally, I examine past and present conversion debates as cases of interest in ELG.

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Introduction: Expanding the Boundaries of Environmental Labour Studies

Cited by 8 publications

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A world systems analysis of union membership and support for government spending on environmental protection

A world systems analysis of union membership and support for government spending on environmental protection

Dimensions of repair work

The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis

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