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Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts.
The world of work - goods, services, and resources - produces most of the greenhouse gases created by human activity. In engaging essays, contributors demonstrate how the world of work and the labour movement need to become involved in the struggle to slow global warming, and the ways in which environmental and economic policies need to be linked dynamically in order to effect positive change.
Addressing the dichotomy of competing public policies in a Canadian context, Work in a Warming World presents ways of creating an effective response to global warming and key building blocks toward a national climate strategy.
The world of work - goods, services, and resources - produces most of the greenhouse gases created by human activity. In engaging essays, contributors demonstrate how the world of work and the labour movement need to become involved in the struggle to slow global warming, and the ways in which environmental and economic policies need to be linked dynamically in order to effect positive change.
Addressing the dichotomy of competing public policies in a Canadian context, Work in a Warming World presents ways of creating an effective response to global warming and key building blocks toward a national climate strategy.
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Part of the Queen's Policy Studies Series (number 184 in series)
254 Pages, 6 x 9
Queen's Policy Studies Series - School of Policy Studies
ISBN 9781553394327
April 2015
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Carla Lipsig-Mummé is professor of work and labour studies at York University.
Stephen McBride is professor of political science and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization at McMaster University.
Stephen McBride is professor of political science and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization at McMaster University.
List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices............................vii
I TRENDS AND CHALLENGES
Introduction
Stephen McBride and Carla Lipsig-Mummé.............................3
1. International Constraints on Green Strategies: Ontario’s
WTO Defeat and Public Sector Remedies
Scott Sinclair and Stuart Trew....................................13
2. Unions and Climate Change in Europe: The Contrasting
Experience of Germany and the United Kingdom
John Calvert......................................................37
3. Gendered Emissions: Counting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Gender and Why It Matters
Marjorie Griffin Cohen............................................59
4. Canadian Labour’s Climate Dilemma
Geoffrey Bickerton and Carla Lipsig-Mummé.........................83
5. Renewable Energy Development as Industrial Strategy:
The Case of Ontario’s Green Energy and Green Economy Act
Mark Winfield.....................................................105
II MAKING GREEN WORK
6. (Re)building Sustainable Infrastructure: The Implications
for Engineers
Kean Birch and Dalton Wudrich.....................................125
7. Construction and Climate Change: Overcoming
Roadblocks to Achieving Green Workforce Competencies
John Calvert......................................................143
8. Labour and the Greening of Hospitality: Raising Standards
or Union Greenwashing?
Steven Tufts and Simon Milne......................................173
9. Cities, Climate Change, and the Green Economy
Stephen McBride, John Shields, and Stephanie Tombari..............195
10. Renewable Energy, Sustainable Jobs: The Case of the
Kingston, Ontario, Region
Megan MacCallum, Lindsay Napier, John Holmes, and
Warren Edward Mabee..............................................215
About the Contributors...........................................235
Index............................................................239
I TRENDS AND CHALLENGES
Introduction
Stephen McBride and Carla Lipsig-Mummé.............................3
1. International Constraints on Green Strategies: Ontario’s
WTO Defeat and Public Sector Remedies
Scott Sinclair and Stuart Trew....................................13
2. Unions and Climate Change in Europe: The Contrasting
Experience of Germany and the United Kingdom
John Calvert......................................................37
3. Gendered Emissions: Counting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Gender and Why It Matters
Marjorie Griffin Cohen............................................59
4. Canadian Labour’s Climate Dilemma
Geoffrey Bickerton and Carla Lipsig-Mummé.........................83
5. Renewable Energy Development as Industrial Strategy:
The Case of Ontario’s Green Energy and Green Economy Act
Mark Winfield.....................................................105
II MAKING GREEN WORK
6. (Re)building Sustainable Infrastructure: The Implications
for Engineers
Kean Birch and Dalton Wudrich.....................................125
7. Construction and Climate Change: Overcoming
Roadblocks to Achieving Green Workforce Competencies
John Calvert......................................................143
8. Labour and the Greening of Hospitality: Raising Standards
or Union Greenwashing?
Steven Tufts and Simon Milne......................................173
9. Cities, Climate Change, and the Green Economy
Stephen McBride, John Shields, and Stephanie Tombari..............195
10. Renewable Energy, Sustainable Jobs: The Case of the
Kingston, Ontario, Region
Megan MacCallum, Lindsay Napier, John Holmes, and
Warren Edward Mabee..............................................215
About the Contributors...........................................235
Index............................................................239
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