Business, Organized Labour and Climate Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Business, Organized Labour and Climate Policy write by Peter Glynn. This book was released on 2017-04-28. Business, Organized Labour and Climate Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Trade Unions in the Green Economy
Trade Unions in the Green Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trade Unions in the Green Economy write by Nora Räthzel. This book was released on 2013. Trade Unions in the Green Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Labour and the Environment
Labour and the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Labour and the Environment write by United Nations Environment Programme. This book was released on 2007. Labour and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Organizing Matters
Organizing Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Organizing Matters write by Guy Mundlak. This book was released on 2020-05-29. Organizing Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Organizing Matters demonstrates the interplay between two distinct logics of labour’s collective action: on the one hand, workers coming together, usually at their place of work, entrusting the union to represent their interests and, on the other hand, social bargaining in which the trade union constructs labour’s interests from the top down. The book investigates the tensions and potential complementarities between the two logics through the combination of a strong theoretical framework and an extensive qualitative case study of trade union organizing and recruitment in four countries – Austria, Germany, Israel and the Netherlands. These countries still utilize social-wide bargaining but find it necessary to draw and develop strategies transposed from Anglo-American countries in response to continuously declining membership.
Decent Work, Green Jobs and the Sustainable Economy
Decent Work, Green Jobs and the Sustainable Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decent Work, Green Jobs and the Sustainable Economy write by Peter Poschen. This book was released on 2017-09-08. Decent Work, Green Jobs and the Sustainable Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The challenges of achieving environmental sustainability and of generating decent work for all are closely linked. In this timely book, Poschen argues that an integrated approach to tackle these challenges is a necessity: the goal of environmentally sustainable economies will not be attained without the active contribution of the world of work. Decent Work, Green Jobs and the Sustainable Economy demonstrates that green jobs can be a key economic driver, as the world steps into the largely uncharted territory of building a sustainable and low-carbon global economy. Poschen shows that positive outcomes are possible, but require a clear understanding of the opportunities and challenges.Enterprises, workers and governments are not passive bystanders in the great transformation that is urgently needed in our economies. They are essential agents of change, able to develop new ways of working in sustainable enterprises that safeguard the environment, create decent jobs and foster social inclusion. This book highlights the solutions that the world of work offers for policy and practice to tackle climate change, achieve environmental sustainability and to build prosperous and cohesive societies. It is essential reading for those in business, academia and government.
