Greening Auto Jobs: A Critical Analysis of the Green Job Solution provides a major contribution to the growing and important field of environmental sociology and labor studies by providing a theoretical and practical understanding of how the broader political-economic relations of society affect the relationship between labor and the environment.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Appendixes
List of Abbreviations
Abstract
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter One - Introduction: Why Green Jobs Matter
Chapter Two - What is a Green Job?
Green Job Definitions
The Theoretical Foundation of Green Jobs
A Critique of Ecological Modernization
Ways of Understanding the Capitalist System and the Green Shift
A Marxist Understanding of Green Jobs
Conclusion
Chapter Three - Green Jobs as an Environmental and Economic Battleground
Green Jobs in Australia, a Blurred Vision
Recent Green Job Manoeuvres 2007-2011
The Narrative of Jobs as a Battleground in Australia
Conclusion
Chapter Four - The Response of Some Key Australian Unions to Green Jobs
Unions and Just Transition
What Do Unions Do? Australian Unions and a Green Jobs Agenda
What Do International Unions Do?
What Can Unions Do?
Conclusion
Chapter Five - The Automotive Industry: Setting the Scene
An Overview of the Current Global Automotive Industry Landscape
The Political Economy and Cultural Dominance of the Car: within the Global Context
Car Nation
The Labor Process: Automobile Production and Its Workers
Conclusion
Chapter Six - Crisis in the Global Automotive Industry and the Green Shift
Crisis
The Political Economic Shift of Auto: From Environmental Opposition to
Ecological Modernization
The Green Possibilities of the Three Parent Companies
The State and Labor Unions Embrace a Green Shift
Conclusion
Chapter Seven - Green Cars, Green Jobs: The Australian Government's Green Car Plan
Green Car Policy from Opposition
Green Car Policy in Government
Policy in Action
The Never-Ending Crisis
Conclusion
Chapter Eight - Analyzing the Green Shift: The Three Vehicle Manufacturers Operating in Australia
Understanding Green Jobs
Government Policy, Industry and the Environment
Green Shifts and Manoeuvres
Outside Australia's Control
Conclusion
Chapter Nine - Conclusion
Key Findings
Implications and Future Research Possibilities
Appendixes
Bibliography
End Notes
