Trade Unions in the Green Economy : Working for the Environment (Hardcover)

Part 1: Intoduction  1. Mending the Breach between Labour and Nature: A Case for Environmental Labour Studies David Uzzell and Nora Rathzel  Part 2: Trade Union Perspectives  2. Developing Global Environmental Union Policies through the ITUC Anabella Rosemberg  3. Making the Environment a Trade Union Issue Laura Martin Murillo  4. International Labour Organization and the Environment - The Way to a Socially Just Transition for Workers Lene Olsen and Dorit Kemter  5. Food Workers’ Rights as a Path to a Low-Carbon Agriculture Peter Rossman  6. Moving Towards Eco-Unionism: Reflecting the Spanish Experience Begona Maria-Tome Gil  7. Cars, Crisis, Climate Change and Class Struggle Lars Henriksson  Part 3: Analyses of Trade Union Environmental Policies across the Globe  8. The Neo-liberal Global Economy & Nature: Re-defining the Trade Union Role Jacklyn Cock and Rob Lambert  9. Sustainable Development or Environmental Justice? Questions for Trade Unions on Land, Livelihoods and Jobs Andrew Bennie  10. Climate Change, Trade Unions and Rural Workers in Labour-Environmental Alliances in the Amazon Rainforest Joao Paulo Candia Veiga, Scott B. Martin  11. From ‘Jobs Versus Environment’ to ‘Green-Collar Jobs’: Australian Trade Unions and the Climate Change Debate Verity Burgmann  12. Just Transition and Labour Environmentalism in Australia Darryn Snell and Peter Fairbrother  13. Will they Tie the Knot? Labour and Environmental Trajectories in Taiwan and South Korea Hwa-Jen Liu  14. Green Jobs? Good Jobs? Just Jobs? USA Labour Unions Confront Climate Change Dimitris Stevis  15. U.S. Trade Unions and the Challenge of "Extreme Energy" The Case of the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline Sean Sweeney  16. 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  17. Trade Unions and the Transition from ‘Actually Existing Unsustainability’: from Economic Crisis to a New Political Economy beyond Growth John Barry  18. Local Place and Global Space: Solidarity across Borders and the Question of the Environment David Uzzell and Nora Rathzel