Labour, Climate Policies and Just Transitions

Global Challenges for Unions
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4069-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Climate change mitigation policies aspire to transform industries, labour markets and societies worldwide, but who will stand to gain and who will lose? This book examines how unions navigate tensions between advancing climate action and protecting workers’ interests.

Using case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, it explores labour’s roles in climate policy and initiatives for Just Transitions under varying socio-economic and political contexts. Identifying opportunities and challenges that will dominate future debates and struggles, the authors demonstrate that the Just Transition is a contested concept imbued with widely differing meanings across the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trappmann, Vera

Eversberg, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Climate Neutrality and Social Justice - Once More a Dilemma for Labour? – Vera Trappmann and Dennis Eversberg

1. Social Partners, Critical Engagers, State Agents, and Bystanders: How Labour Shapes Climate Policy Across 14 Countries – Hauke Dannemann, Alex Beresford, Dennis Eversberg, Vera Trappmann and Mattia Dessi

2. Trade Unions’ Strategies for Just Transitions: A Typology for Global Comparison – Vera Trappmann, Dennis Eversberg, Mattia Dessi, Hauke Dannemann and Alex Beresford

3. German Trade Unions and the Just Transition: Industrially Centred State-Driven Eco-Modernisation – Felix Schulz

4. From ‘Fancy-Funeral’ to a New ‘Blue-Green’: The Role of Labour in the Climate Jobs Movement in the USA – Hunter Moskowitz, J. Mijin Cha and Lara Skinner

5. Trade Unions and Just Transition in the UK: Fragile Experiments Within and Beyond the Workplace – Jo Cutter, Vera Trappmann and Ursula Balderson

6. Shaping a Multilevel Just Transition Towards a Green Economy: The Role of Unions and Coalitions in Québec – Mélanie Laroche, Jonathan Michaud and Éric Pineault

7. Just Transition in Spain: Trade Unions and the Politics of Anticipation – Jo Cutter

8. Just Transition in Colombia: Labour Unions and Popular Movements at the Forefront – Dario Azzellini

9. Just Transition in South Africa – Alex Beresford and Ruth Bookbinder

10. Just Energy Transition and Brazilian Trade Unionism: Advances and Limitations – Flávia Ribeiro and Marco Tulio Vieira

11. Fragmented Transitions: Labour, Fuel Subsidy Removal, and the Pursuit of Just Transition in Nigeria – Temitayo Isaac Odeyemi, Boluwatife Solomon Ajibola, Damilola Temitope Olorunshola and Kingsley Oladayo Ogunne

12. Between Environmental (In)justice and Corporate Co-Option: Where Now for Just Transition in Chile? – Ursula Balderson and Dasten Julián-Vejar

13. Navigating Transition: Labour, Governance, and the Limits of Inclusion in Malaysia’s National Energy Transition Roadmap – Clare Richardson-Barlow, Nofri Yenita Dahlan, Azlin Mohd Azmi and Sridhar Sripadmanabhan Indira

14. Just Transition in Poland – Aleksander Szpor

15. Coal, Climate, and Communities: The Politics of Just Transition in Kuzbass, Russia – Olga Ustyuzhantseva

16. China’s Orderly Transition Approach: Trade Unions As Executive Agents to State Policies in the Green Transition – Jiachen Shi

Conclusion: Struggling for Just Futures in a World in Turmoil – Vera Trappmann and Dennis Eversberg

Über Autor(innen)

Vera Trappmann is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations at Leeds University Business School.

Dennis Eversberg is Professor of Environmental Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.