Changing the Climate
Ecoliberalism, Green New Dealism, and the Struggle over Green Jobs in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11229645 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Nugent (University of Toronto, corresponding author), James Patrick Nugent (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 58-82 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labor Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0160-449X • E-ISSN: 1538-9758 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0160449x10392528 |
| OpenAlex | W2098365412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 20 |
Labor-environmentalism has been a strategic response of Canadian unions to the dual manufacturing and climate-change crisis. Important ideological work led organized labor in Canada to endorse the Kyoto Protocol. But the deepening manufacturing crisis of the 2000s tested the resolve of unions to challenge the “jobs-versus-the-environment” dichotomy and to support stringent greenhouse gas emissions reductions. I explain contrasting responses of the Canadian Auto Workers and the United Steelworkers. I critique the dominant discourse of ecological modernization championed by the state-capital alliance for being neoliberal, and evaluate the degree to which this is challenged by the USW’s call for a Green New Deal
Alliance · Capital (architecture · Climate change · Ecological modernization · Economics · Economy · Environmentalism · Geography · Greenhouse gas · Ideology · Kyoto Protocol · Modernization theory · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Sciences and Governance
The emergence of intra-labour organizing
Working towards a green job
Climate change and industrial relations
Beyond identity
Transitioning away from coal
Unconventional Labour
Trade unions and climate politics
US labour unions and green transitions
Greening labour? The role of the SDGs in fostering sustainability integration within trade unions
Greening transport in Sweden
An alternative socio-ecological strategy? International trade unions’ engagement with climate change
Prospects for the bioeconomy in achieving a Just Transition
Going Green—Turning Labor
Toward a Green Jobs Alternative
Beyond Jobs vs Environment
Approaches to energy transitions
Trade unions’ interpretation of a just transition in a fossil fuel economy
Climate Politics and Race in the Pacific Northwest
Contesting just transitions
Ontario's infrastructure boom
Coalitions Across the Class Divide
The Ecological Modernisation Reader
The Enemy of Nature
Labor and the Environmental Movement
The Silent Revolution
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Labor-Environmental Coalitions
Steel Magnolias
Blue-Green Coalitions
Tall among the trees
Green Work Alliances
Hegemony and the Power of Constitution
The refinement of production
Capitalism's Environmental Crisis—Is Technology the Answer
Ecological modernization as social theory
A critique of generative class theories of environmentalism and of the labour-environmentalist relationship
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |