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

Kleinheisterkamp-González, Nicole

doi:10.1177/03091325231154222

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“…A ‘geographies of action’ agenda will also need to tackle head-on how workers across the world are facing the threat of climate change, often combined with the additional risk to their livelihoods posed by climate policies and other mitigation efforts. As with the union renewal literature in the 1990s, the nascent field of environmental labour studies is now gaining traction in labour geography (Lipsig-Mummé, 2013; Stevis et al, 2018; Kleinheisterkamp-González, 2023). Worker responses in this literature reflect the changing labour geographies of the Anthropocene: climate change migration (Natarajan et al, 2019), fossil fuel phase-out (Jordhus-Lier et al, 2022; Pearse and Bryant, 2022), adaptation work (Mikulewicz, 2021) and new forms of labour resistance (Natarajan and Parsons, 2021; Huber, 2022).…”

Section: Dissecting the Multiple Geographies Of Constrained Agencymentioning

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The multiple geographies of constrained labour agency

Coe

Jordhus‐Lier

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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This article critically evaluates the burgeoning work on labour agency in human geography over the past decade. We review efforts to distinguish varied forms of labour agency and locate them in different social contexts. In so doing, we identify certain disjunctures in the cross-case conceptualisation of labour agency and propose a morphogenetic approach to structure-agency dynamics in the world of work. In turn, we then address the lack of explicit reflection on the geographies inherent to labour agency. Four temporal moments are highlighted as central to the spatialities of worker actions, as well as to their structural constraints and outcomes.

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Section: Dissecting the Multiple Geographies Of Constrained Agencymentioning

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The multiple geographies of constrained labour agency

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Jordhus‐Lier

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Similarly, the estimates EPA, wind power has now been considered a major energy resource in the world, where wind turbines use the wind, a renewable source of energy, to produce electricity or power. It has no negative impact on environmental degradation due to the clean energy production system and it does not require water to produce the power (González, 2023;Liu, Shamdasani & Taraz, 2023). Likewise, the U.S. Department of Energy has also estimated that the usage of wind power (turbine) cut the overall water consumption in the power sector by almost 36.5 billion gallons in the year 2013 only.…”

Section: Mitigate the Negative Impacts Of Climate Changementioning

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Impact of Climate Change on Pakistan and Proposed Solutions: Evidence from Literature

Sheer,

Fatima,

Sharif

2023

Migrat. Lett.

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The current research examines the impact of climate change on Pakistan (social, economic & environmental) and proposed solutions from existing literature. For this purpose, the qualitative research design was adopted, and literature has been taken from the last ten years' papers, articles, reports, and books. However, for the analysis of impacts, the most recent year-2023 literature has been taken from international journals. The result was divided into a total of four themes: a) social, b) economic, c) environmental impacts, and d) mitigation strategies for climate change in Pakistan. Results and findings showed that climate change has negatively affected the social, economic, and environmental well-being of the people of Pakistan, especially, people who are associated with agriculture and livestock. Frequent droughts, urban flooding, land-sliding, cyclones, earth-quick, etc., not only disturb social life but also have several negative economic implications such as decreases the per capita income, loss of Gross Domestic Products (GDP) and food security and safety. Though, Pakistan, being a developing country, has signed many agreements with international organizations like United Nations (UN), World Bank (WB), etc to overcome the negative effects of climate change. Despite strategies and efforts, still Pakistan has failed to achieve its targets due to a lack of funds, political disinterest, lack of awareness among common people about climate change, and administrative inefficiencies as well. The political and administrative seriousness about climate change can make the possible outcomes to overcome the inverse implications of climate change in Pakistan.

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“…Geography, and specifically political ecology, can demonstrate the dramatic impact that the outcomes of IR have on the (future) natural environment; this in turn creates new conflicts (for an overview see Perreault et al, 2015). Moreover, labor geography identifies various ways in which labor shapes its "natural" environment as an important factor in the regulation of work (Herod, 1997;Herod et al, 2022;Kleinheisterkamp-González, 2023). The following sections will draw on those fields in order to address the problems of the traditional IR approaches in facing the ecological crisis.…”

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Metabolic politics: Industrial relations as if nature mattered

Schaupp¹

2023

Preprint

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Work is at the center of the social metabolism with nature. This means that industrial relations (IR) are always also environmental politics. This article reviews core contributions to IR literature, showing that they do not systematically address this role of nature and separate the politics of work from their ecological basis. Against this backdrop, the article develops an interdisciplinary approach, combining IR studies with geographical as well as historical perspectives. Drawing on these fields, it presents the concept of metabolic politics in which nature is an autonomous party of IR. This approach allows analysis to take into account systematically the effects of IR on nonhuman nature as well as nature's own shaping of IR. Such an interdisciplinary approach is necessary to understand the entanglement of IR with climate change and the broader ecological crisis.

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

Cited by 10 publications

References 58 publications

The multiple geographies of constrained labour agency

The multiple geographies of constrained labour agency

Impact of Climate Change on Pakistan and Proposed Solutions: Evidence from Literature

Metabolic politics: Industrial relations as if nature mattered

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