Suchergebnisse

Introduction -- Climate politics and the potential for climate solidarity -- Trade unions, climate and employment in a neoliberal world -- Trade unions and climate politics in the UK -- Workplace climate representation: prisoners of neoliberalism or swords of climate justice? -- The Vestas occupation and climate politics -- Climate and class: a missing link

This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades. It offers a rigorous critique of the mainstream neoliberal and ecological modernisation approaches, extending the concepts of Marxist social and employment relations theory to the climate realm. The book applies insights from employment relations to the political economy of climate change, developing a model for understanding trade union behaviour over climate matters. The strong interdisciplinary approach draws together lessons from both physical and.