Working Through Planetary Breakdown - Labour, Skill and the Changing Climate

Working through Planetary Breakdown offers a genuinely interdisciplinary engagement with the future of paid and unpaid work in the context of the twin challenges of decarbonisation and the growing impacts of an unstable climate.

Sommario

Skill, industrial transformation and work in a climate changing world PART I: SKILLS and TRAINING 1."What's your apocalypse skill?": Revaluing Flexible Skills for the Apocalyptic Good-Life 2. Localising the Operation of Grid-Tied Microgrids for Future Resilience 3. Navigating Skills in Uncertain Energy Futures: Education, Skills and Training for the Australian Air-Conditioning Workforce 4. Quiet Sustainability: Tacit Knowledge and Emic Capacities in Building and Construction 5. "Creative technicians" and "technical creatives": Transferable Skills for Challenging Times PART II: INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION 6. A Transition with Teeth: Reconfiguring the Concept of Just Transition to Recognise the Imperative of Fossil Fuel Cessation 7. Place-Sensitive Approaches to Coal Transitions in Australia 8.Industrial Democracy and Climate Struggle: The Limits and Possibilities of Using Health and Safety Committees to Promote Industrial Democracy and Address Climate Change 9. Hot Under the PPE Collar: Occupational High Heat During the Covid-19 Pandemic 10. Industrial Control and Capitalist Inefficiency: Manufacturing Workforce Development in the Polycrisis 11. From Occupational Steering to Occupational Citizenship? Understanding Career Pathways After the Demise of Australian Automotive Manufacturing

Info autore

Chantel Carr is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in Geography and Sustainability at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Chantel is a human geographer working on the social and labour dimensions of energy transitions and decarbonisation.
Jesse Adams Stein is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Jesse is an interdisciplinary design researcher whose work focuses on labour, technology and industries in transition.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Chantel Adams Stein Carr
• Con la collaborazione di: Jesse Adams Stein (Editore), Chantel Carr (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032817712
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281771-2
• Pagine: 226
• Serie: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Energy Policy, Labour / income economics, Environmental Economics, Labour Economics, Social impact of environmental issues, Sociology: work & labour, Environmental policy & protocols, Sociology: work and labour, Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business, Business & the environment, 'Green' approaches to business, Environmental policy and protocols