Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity - Tackling Climate Change in a Neoliberal World

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 social science, providing an original empirical investigation into the climate politics of the UK trade union movement from high level officials down to workplace climate representatives, from issues of climate jobs to workers' climate action.

This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in environmental politics, climate change and environmental sociology.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Climate politics and the potential for climate solidarity 3. Trade unions, climate and employment in a neoliberal world 4. Trade unions and climate politics in the UK 5. Workplace climate representation: Prisoners of neoliberalism or swords of climate justice? 6. The Vestas occupation and climate politics 7. Climate and class: A missing link

About the author

Paul Hampton received his PhD in climate change and employment relations from London Metropolitan University. He is head of research and policy at the Fire Brigades Union in the UK.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Hampton, Paul (Head of Research and Policy Officer Hampton, Hampton Paul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.2015
• EAN: 9781138841420
• ISBN: 978-1-138-84142-0
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Studies in Climate, Work and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sociology, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Labour / income economics, Politics & government, Environmental Economics, environmental science, engineering & technology, Labour Economics, Social issues & processes, Politics and government, Social and ethical issues, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business