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- Title
Beyond the Blue and Green: The Need to Consider Aboriginal Peoples’ Relationships to Resource Development in Labor-Environment Campaigns.
- Authors
Mills, Suzanne E.
- Abstract
In this article, I argue that labor researchers in North America need to engage more thoroughly with Indigenous studies if they hope to advance social and environmental justice. First, I suggest that researchers approach Aboriginal peoples’ relationships to the environment by supporting Aboriginal rights to lands and resources. Second, and related to this point, I raise the issue of the need for Aboriginal-controlled development in northern Aboriginal communities. Finally, I draw on a case study on Inuit and union participation in the creation of the Vale Inco, Voisey’s Bay nickel mine in Labrador to discuss how the increasing prevalence of corporate-Aboriginal alliances is creating important challenges to union engagement that need to be addressed.
- Subjects
LABRADOR (N.L.); NEWFOUNDLAND &; Labrador; ENVIRONMENTAL justice; LEGAL status of indigenous peoples; INUIT; INDIGENOUS peoples -- Land tenure; NICKEL mining; STRATEGIC alliances (Business); POLITICAL participation of labor unions
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 2011, Vol 36, Issue 1, p104
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0160449X10392527