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- Title
Changing the Climate: Ecoliberalism, Green New Dealism, and the Struggle over Green Jobs in Canada.
- Authors
Nugent, James Patrick
- Abstract
Labor-environmentalism has been a strategic response of Canadian unions to the dual manufacturing and climate-change crisis. Important ideological work led organized labor in Canada to endorse the Kyoto Protocol. But the deepening manufacturing crisis of the 2000s tested the resolve of unions to challenge the “jobs-versus-the-environment” dichotomy and to support stringent greenhouse gas emissions reductions. I explain contrasting responses of the Canadian Auto Workers and the United Steelworkers. I critique the dominant discourse of ecological modernization championed by the state-capital alliance for being neoliberal, and evaluate the degree to which this is challenged by the USW’s call for a Green New Deal.
- Subjects
CANADA; GREEN movement; LABOR unions; GREEN business; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; CLIMATE change; ECONOMICS; NEOLIBERALISM; CLEAN energy industries
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 2011, Vol 36, Issue 1, p58
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0160449X10392528