ABSTRACT
More and More, younger scholars are drawing on the treadmill because of the pain of their discovery of widening social inequalities and ecological decline. The treadmill model offers both a description of antisocial and antiecological tendencies within the global economy, and a richer, more reflective analysis of what changes may be brought about by analysts and activists. Perhaps national and global environmental politics support and reflect the treadmill model more than they do other theoretical frameworks. New alignments of workers, community movements, and labor unions are built around a shared sense of the pernicious impact of the treadmill on the majority of workers in many countries.
