The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71909-8_33
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Labour and Societal Relationships with Nature. Conceptual Implications for Trade Unions

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“…While, as the legal scholar Tomassetti has argued, ‘sustainability’ holds immense conceptual promise as a ‘fundamental principle of law’ embodying the principles of efficiency, capability and equality which underpin both labour and environmental law (Tomassetti, 2018), in practice the idea has had weak legal purchase in staunching and redirecting employment relations systems from their existing fossil-intensive trajectories. As Barth and Littig note, the key mechanism for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals has been the formalisation of the workforce and expansion of paid work, processes which may be highly consistent with the expansion of fossil dependency (Barth and Littig, 2021). Current conceptions of ‘sustainability’ are broad and flexible enough to enable companies devoted to the acceleration of fossil fuel extraction (Dauvergne, 2020) and gig economy platforms predicated on non-employment-based work relations to claim their mantle (Novitz, 2021).…”
Section: Changing Contexts For Industrial Relationships: the Rise Of ...mentioning
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“…While, as the legal scholar Tomassetti has argued, ‘sustainability’ holds immense conceptual promise as a ‘fundamental principle of law’ embodying the principles of efficiency, capability and equality which underpin both labour and environmental law (Tomassetti, 2018), in practice the idea has had weak legal purchase in staunching and redirecting employment relations systems from their existing fossil-intensive trajectories. As Barth and Littig note, the key mechanism for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals has been the formalisation of the workforce and expansion of paid work, processes which may be highly consistent with the expansion of fossil dependency (Barth and Littig, 2021). Current conceptions of ‘sustainability’ are broad and flexible enough to enable companies devoted to the acceleration of fossil fuel extraction (Dauvergne, 2020) and gig economy platforms predicated on non-employment-based work relations to claim their mantle (Novitz, 2021).…”
Section: Changing Contexts For Industrial Relationships: the Rise Of ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The overwhelming focus of climate-oriented industrial relations scholarship has been on the role that organised labour is playing or could play in climate action, and the extent to which climate change might be a catalyst for unions to reconfigure their identity and purpose. While it is self-evident, as a matter of logic, that ‘working-class people are intrinsically ecological subjects’ and that no work at all can take place without a functioning environment, longstanding theories of trade unions lead us to expect that any process of fundamental reinvention, should it occur, will be conflict-ridden (Barth and Littig, 2021). It is now well understood that climate action pulls most unions in opposing directions.…”
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“…Work is central to the social metabolism with nature (Foster, 1999;Barth and Littig, 2021). Workers are the primary agent in the transformation of energy and matter through the labor process (Barca 2012, p. 75).…”
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