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Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice

Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice

Vachon, Todd E.

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesGeneral ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1439923213
ISBN13: 9781439923214
Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
Published: Apr 21 2023
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The labor-climate movement in the U.S. laid the groundwork for the Green New Deal by building a base within labor for supporting climate protection as a vehicle for good jobs. But as we confront the climate crisis and seek environmental justice, a jobs vs. environment discourse often pits workers against climate activists. How can we make a just transition moving away from fossil fuels, while also compensating for the human cost when jobs are lost or displaced?

In his timely book, Clean Air and Good Jobs, Todd Vachon examines the labor-climate movement and demonstrates what can be envisioned and accomplished when climate justice is on labor's agenda and unions work together with other social movements to formulate bold solutions to the climate crisis. Vachon profiles the workers and union leaders who have been waging a slow, but steadily growing revolution within their unions to make labor as a whole an active and progressive champion for both workers and the environment.

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