ABSTRACT
This book offers a timely exploration of how climate change manifests in the global workplace. It draws together accounts of workers, their work, and the politics of resistance in order to enable us to better understand how the impacts of climate change are structured by the economic and social processes of labour.
Focusing on nine empirically grounded cases of labour under climate change, this volume links the tools and methods of critical labour studies to key debates over climate change adaptation and mitigation in order to highlight the active nature of struggles in the climate-impacted workplace. Spanning cases including commercial agriculture in Turkey, labour unions in the UK, and brick kilns in Cambodia, this collection offers a novel lens on the changing climate, showing how both the impacts of climate change and adaptations to it emerge through the prism of working lives.
Drawing together scholars from anthropology, political economy, geography, and development studies, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change adaptation, labour studies, and environmental justice. More generally, it will be of interest to anybody seeking to understand how the changing climate is changing the terms, conditions, and politics of the global workplace.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|12 pages
Introduction
part 1|58 pages
Labour
chapter 2|17 pages
Thermal inequality in a changing climate
chapter 3|17 pages
Climate change adaptation through agroecology in Senegal
chapter 4|22 pages
Routes to food security
part 2|58 pages
Adaptation
chapter 5|20 pages
Old ways and new routes
chapter 6|17 pages
From climate adaptation to social reproductive resistance
chapter 7|19 pages
Hands that adapt
part 3|67 pages
Resistance