ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how workers can challenge the contemporary organizing of work and respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene. It uses three related concepts: work, labour and job. Work is understood as general terms referring to those efforts that are put in to accomplish something. Labour is used to explore the interests of the workers and wage earners in relation to the interests of the capitalists or capital itself. Labour also refers to controlling, organizing and arranging wage labour and paid work; the latter is also referred to as jobs. The chapter describes the forms of worker agency found in the organizations, and how this worker agency is embedded in local and state governance systems, as well as in the production and destruction networks. It concludes with the concept of worker agency has the potential to address some of the challenges of the Anthropocene in the studied sites, as well in general.
