Just transition on the ground
Challenges and opportunities for social dialogue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23316718 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Béla Galgóczi (European Trade Union Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 367-382 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Industrial Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-6801 • E-ISSN: 1461-7129 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0959680120951704 |
| OpenAlex | W3089583989 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 72 |
| References cited | 6 |
The process leading to a net zero carbon economy by mid-century will have massive effects on jobs, labour relations and income distribution. The idea of just transition – that achieving the ambitious objectives to bring climate change under control will only be possible if the transition to a net-zero carbon economy is balanced and just – has evolved in the last four decades from a union initiative to a complex policy framework adopted by international organizations, and also referred to in the COP21 Paris Agreement (UNFCCC, 2015). Building on literature analysis, this article deconstructs the concept of ‘just transition’ by discussing its various interpretations and dimensions and highlighting the role of trade unions in applying it. Based on sectoral case studies, concrete examples from two key sectors of the European economy – energy and automobile – are given, where massive employment transitions are under way and social dialogue plays a key role. Conclusions about the changing role of trade unions and the importance of co-operative industrial relations are drawn.
Business · Climate change · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Energy transition · European union · International trade · Key (lock) · Labour economics · Management · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Process (computing) · Social dialogue · Social partners · Trade union · Transition (genetics) · Computer Science · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Industrial relations · Labor Movements and Unions
Are the blue and the green natural allies? Mapping the public foundations of just transition worldwide
Fostering just transition in the Italian automotive ecosystem
Marginalisation or mobilisation through electromobility? Depicting the pharmakon nature of Chinese EV battery investments in Hungary
The Impact of Organizational Media Performance on Social Media Management
Jobs in the loop
Just transitions for industrial decarbonisation
Phasing out coal for 2 °C target requires worldwide replication of most ambitious national plans despite security and fairness concerns
Historical precedents and feasibility of rapid coal and gas decline required for the 1.5°C target
Looking for a ‘just transition
A Participatory Future Scenario-Building Methodology for Europe’s Just Transition by Sectors
Mind the gap
The divergent narratives and strategies of unions in times of social-ecological crises
Just transitions in global economies? Union and worker understandings of justice in Germany and South Africa compared
Disrupting carbon lock-in from below
Europe’s green, digital and demographic transition
Action collective, action de mouvement social
Transition to electric vehicles in Hungary
Agents of transition or defenders of the status quo? Trade union strategies in green transitions
Climate change and industrial relations
Beyond identity
Negotiating Green in Automotive Sector
German Trade Unions and Decarbonisation
Social movement unionism through radical democracy
Navigating just transitions
Political economy of just transition
Inequality determined social outcomes of low-carbon transition policies
Eco-equalities for a Just Transition to Net Zero
Anchoring a just transition
Justice in transition
Pathways towards just transitions in the Global South
Place-based just transition
Three pillars of just transition labour market policies
Just transitions in the Australian automotive sector
A ‘just transition’ for workers in the automotive sector? Survey evidence from the West Midlands
Perspectives on Social and Justice Issues in Climate Policy – Comparing the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco‐Social Policy Literatures
Green Subsidies and the Promotion of Eco‐Social Policy in Germany and the United States
Navigating Eco‐Social Policymaking
Introduction to the Special Issue
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation
A race to net zero
The conflicts of ecological transition on the ground and the role of eco-social policies
Trade Unions and Sustainability
Framing the just transition
Prospects for the bioeconomy in achieving a Just Transition
Transnational capital and the scramble for land and profit
The future of polarisation in Europe
How can trade unions act strategically in response to decarbonisation? Union strategic capacity and automotive transition policies in Germany, Spain and the UK
How do workers and their unions become climate actors? A research framework
Balancing tensions for just transition
Just transition
Exnovation
Exnovation
Exnovatie
How Can Science and Technology Policy Study Contribute to Better Democracy and Human Freedom
Orchestrating public reforms through joint organizations
Paradox of socially just transition governance in the Global South
Implicit and explicit (in)justice on the route to Paris
Climate (of) change
Transitions for zero carbon futures
When two movements collide
Towards a Just Transition in Ireland and the European Union
Collective actors and potential alliances for eco-social policies in Germany
(Un)Just transitions and Black dispossession
A psychometric approach to assess justice perceptions in support of the governance of agricultural sustainability transitions
Citizen participation in food systems transitions
The politics of just transition
Contesting just transitions
Eco-social divides in public policy preferences in Great Britain
The necessity of a transformational approach to just transition
Employee Voice and Corporate Governance
A Just Transition for Auto Workers? Negotiating the Electric Vehicle Transition in Germany and North America
| Unique citing works | 72 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 14,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2027 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 67 |