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- Title
Organized Labor, Nuclear Power, and Environmental Justice: A Comparative Analysis of the Canadian and U.S. Labor Movements.
- Authors
Savage, Larry; Soron, Dennis
- Abstract
This article engages in a comparative analysis of the U.S. and Canadian labor movements’ attitudes toward nuclear power, in both historical and contemporary periods, with a view to explaining the divergent policy positions on nuclear power adopted by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and the AFL-CIO, respectively. The contrasting views of the AFL-CIO and CLC, it is argued, arise not simply from differing levels of commitment to the principles of social unionism, but from a more complex mesh of ideological, pragmatic, and institutional factors related to union-party relationships and other important differences pertaining to the culture, membership composition, organizational maintenance requirements, and decision-making power bases in both labor organizations.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CANADA; NUCLEAR energy; LABOR unions; LABOR movement; ENERGY policy; ENVIRONMENTAL justice; CANADIAN Labour Congress; AFL-CIO
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 2011, Vol 36, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0160449X10389746