Climate Change in the Global Workplace: Labour, Adaptation and Resistance

Author:   Nithya Natarajan ,  Laurie Parsons
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367762322


Pages:   204
Publication Date:   09 January 2023
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Nithya Natarajan ,  Laurie Parsons
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780367762322


ISBN 10:   0367762323
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   09 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Climate Change in the Global Workplace Part 1: Labour 2. Thermal Inequality in a Changing Climate 3. Climate Change Adaptation through Agroecology in Senegal 4. Routes to Food Security Part 2: Adaptation 5. Old Ways and New Routes: Climate Threats and Adaptive Possibilities in the Indian Himalayas 6. From Climate Adaptation to Social Reproductive Resistance 7. Hands That Adapt: Seasonal Labour Migration, Climate Change and the Making of Adaptable Subjects in Turkey Part 3: Resistance 8. Workers and Environmentalists of the World Unite? 9. A Changing Climate: Indigenous Participation in Extractive Industry 10. Climate Change is Class War 11. Conclusion: Towards a Reworking of Climate Adaptation as Labour ‘Resistance’

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Nithya Natarajan and Laurie Parsons' powerful collection on the issue of global warming and labour depicts the plight of workers in the Global South, exposed to what might be called the three evils of global warming: 1) the loss of livelihoods because of droughts, floods, landslides, etc.; 2) physical and mental suffering because of heat - heat strokes, dehydration, liver failure, etc.; and 3) forced migration because of global warming. Thomas Klikauer, Western Sydney University, Australia


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Nithya Natarajan is Lecturer in international development at King's College, London. Her work focuses on South India and Cambodia, and explores agrarian change, rural–urban livelihoods, labour precarity, gender, and debt. Laurie Parsons is a Lecturer in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His work examines the contested politics of climate change on socio-economic inequalities, patterns of work, and mobilities.

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