The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies

Chapter 1:Introduction: Expanding the Boundaries of Environmental Labour Studies.- Part I: Histories.- Chapter 2: Labour and the Environment in India.- Chapter 3: Energy Transitions in the Global South: the Precarious Location of Unions.- Chapter 4: The New Struggles to be Born: The Difficult Birth of a Democratic Ecosocialist Working-Class Politics.- Chapter 5: The Green New Deal and Just Transition Frames within the American Labour Movement.- Chapter 6: Working-Class Environmentalism: The Case of Northwest Timber Workers.- Chapter 7: Trade Unions and Environmental Justice.- Part II: Seeking Common Ground.- Chapter 8: 'Beware of the Crocodile's Smile': Labour -Environmentalism in the Struggle to Achieve a Just Transition in South Africa.- Chapter 9: Fighting in the Name of Workers: Exploring the Dynamics of Labour-Environmental Conflicts in Kerala.- Chapter 10: Trade Union Politics for a Just Transition: Towards Consensus or Dissensus?.- Chapter 11: Climate Jobs Plans: A Mobilising Strategy in Search of Agency.- Chapter 12: The Role of Ecuadorian Working-Class Environmentalism in Promoting Environmental Justice: an Overview of the Hydrocarbon and Agricultural Sectors.- Chapter 13: A Just Transition for All? A Debate on the Limits and Potentials of a Just Transition in Canada.- Part III: Farmers, Commoners, Communities.- Chapter 14: Labouring the Commons. Amazonia's 'Extractive Reserves' and the Legacy of Chico Mendes.- Chapter 15: Connecting Individual Trajectories and Resistance Movements in Brazil.- Chapter 16: Whose Labour, Whose Land? Indigenous and Labour Conflicts and Alliances over Resource Extraction.- Chapter 17: Commoning Labour, Labouring the Commons: Centring the Commons in Environmental Labour Studies.- Chapter 18: Agroecological Farmer Movements and Advocacy Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Between De-Politicisation and Re-Politicisation.- Chapter 19: Working-Class Environmentalism in the UK - Organising for Sustainability Beyond the Workplace.-

Nora Räthzel is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Umeå (Sweden). Her main research areas are environmental labour studies, transnational corporations and gender and ethnic relations in the everyday. Publications include:  Marxist-Feminists Theories and Struggles Today with Khayaat Fakier and Diana Mulinari (eds.); Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers with Diana Mulinari and Aina Tollefsen; Trade Unions in the Green Economy. Working for the Environment (with David Uzzell, eds.).
Dimitris Stevis is Professor of Politics at Colorado State University (USA). His research focuses on global labour and environmental politics, with particular attention to labour environmentalism and social and ecological justice. He is a founder of the Center for Environmental Justice and recently published (with Dunja Krause and Edouard Morena) Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World(Pluto Press 2020).
David Uzzell is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Psychology at the University of Surrey and Visiting Professor, Grupo de Investigación Persoa-Ambiente, University of A Coruna, Spain. His research interests include critical psychological approaches to changing consumption and production practices. He edited (with Nora Räthzel) Trade Unions in the Green Economy: Working for the Environment (Routledge, 2013).