Organized Labor, Nuclear Power, and Environmental Justice

A Comparative Analysis of the Canadian and U.S. Labor Movements

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11229704
AutoresLarry Savage (Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada,, autor de correspondencia), Dennis Soron (Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada)
Año2011
Volumen36
Número1
Páginas37-57
Fecha de publicación2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLabor Studies Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0160-449X • E-ISSN: 1538-9758
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0160449x10389746
OpenAlexW2313180271
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas4

This article engages in a comparative analysis of the U.S. and Canadian labor movements’ attitudes toward nuclear power, in both historical and contemporary periods, with a view to explaining the divergent policy positions on nuclear power adopted by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and the AFL-CIO, respectively. The contrasting views of the AFL-CIO and CLC, it is argued, arise not simply from differing levels of commitment to the principles of social unionism, but from a more complex mesh of ideological, pragmatic, and institutional factors related to union-party relationships and other important differences pertaining to the culture, membership composition, organizational maintenance requirements, and decision-making power bases in both labor organizations

Economic Justice · Economic system · Economics · Ideology · Law and economics · Nuclear power · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social movement · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership