Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted. Yet research has largely ignored labour and its responses. This book brings together sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, economists, and representatives from international and local unions based in Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Taiwan, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Together they open up a new area of research: Environmental Labour Studies.

Part 1: Intoduction 1. Mending the Breach between Labour and Nature: A Case for Environmental Labour Studies Part 2: Trade Union Perspectives 2. Developing Global Environmental Union Policies through the ITUC 3. Making the Environment a Trade Union Issue 4. International Labour Organization and the Environment - The Way to a Socially Just Transition for Workers 5. Food Workers' Rights as a Path to a Low-Carbon Agriculture 6. Moving Towards Eco-Unionism: Reflecting the Spanish Experience 7.Cars, Crisis, Climate Change and Class Struggle Part 3: Analyses of Trade Union Environmental Policies across the Globe 8. The Neo-liberal Global Economy & Nature: Re-defining the Trade Union Role 9. Sustainable Development or Environmental Justice? Questions for Trade Unions on Land, Livelihoods and Jobs 10. Climate Change, Trade Unions and Rural Workers in Labour-Environmental Alliances in the Amazon Rainforest 11. From 'Jobs Versus Environment' to 'Green-Collar Jobs': Australian Trade Unions and the Climate Change Debate 12. Just Transition and Labour Environmentalism in Australia 13. Will they Tie the Knot? Labour and Environmental Trajectories in Taiwan and South Korea 14. Green Jobs? Good Jobs? Just Jobs? USA Labour Unions Confront Climate Change 15. U.S. Trade Unions and the Challenge of "Extreme Energy" The Case of the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline 16. From Blue to Green: A Comparative Study of Blue-Collar Unions' Reactions to the Climate Change Threat in the United States and Sweden 17. Trade Unions and the Transition from 'Actually Existing Unsustainability': from Economic Crisis to a New Political Economy beyond Growth 18. Local Place and Global Space: Solidarity across Borders and the Question of the Environment