Suchergebnisse

The article reviews some of the available literature, in English, Italian and Portuguese, on work/environment relationships in historical perspective. I discuss the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement as the one most promising for pushing both the research agenda and public policy towards a better understanding of the connections between work and the environment. At the same time, I argue for the need to creatively re-work the EJ paradigm in a sense that allows to better incorporate labor issues and to elaborate a political ecology of work, in order to build a coherent platform of analysis and public action which could be adopted by both environmental and labor advocates.

1. Introduction: Environmental Classism -- 2. Class and Classism -- 3. Carrying the Environmental Burdens -- 4. The Environmental Policy Makers -- 5. The Environmental Policy Influencers -- 6. Working-Class Environmentalism -- 7. Explaining Environmental Classism? -- 8. Supporting Working-Class Environmentalism.

This essay assesses the historical unfolding of the labour-environment nexus to argue that a particular form of it – the ecological transition from above – has been hegemonic in the last decades but is undergoing a deep crisis. In this context, a new process of strategic converging between working-class environmentalism and climate justice movements is being deployed within a new horizon, that of an ecological transition from below. Firstly, we discuss what such process implies for theoretical reflections about class composition and ecological activism. Subsequently, we delve into the case study of ex-GKN Factory (automotive sector, situated in Campi Bisenzio, near Florence, Italy) and its Workers' Collective, which has been prominent in recent months to elaborate and practice strategic convergence.

AbstractThis article traces the trajectory of theory and praxis around nocività or noxiousness – i.e., health damage and environmental degradation – drawn by the workerist group rooted in the petrochemical complex of Porto Marghera, Venice. While Porto Maghera was an important setting for the early activism of influential theorists such as the post-workerist Antonio Negri and the autonomist feminist Mariarosa Dalla Costa, the theories produced by the workers themselves have been largely forgotten. Yet, this experience was remarkable because it involved workers employed by polluting industries denouncing in words and actions the environmental degradation caused by their companies from as early as 1968, when the workerists had a determining influence in the local factories. The Porto Marghera struggles against noxiousness contradict the widespread belief that what is today known as working-class environmentalism did not have much significance in the labour unrest of Italy's Long 1968. The Porto Marghera group's original contribution was based on the thesis of the inherent noxiousness of capitalist work and an antagonistic-transformative approach to capitalist technology. This led to the proposal of a counterpower able to determine "what, how, and how much to produce" on the basis of common needs encompassing the environment, pointing to the utopian prospect of struggling for a different, anti-capitalist technology, compatible with the sustainable reproduction of life on the planet.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- January -- February -- March -- April -- May -- June -- July -- August -- September -- October -- November -- December -- Postscript -- References -- Index.

Acord transformatiu CRUE-CSIC ; Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M ; Analysing a sample of 3,033 environmental conflicts around the globe, we compared conflicts reporting no human health impacts to those reporting health impacts linked to toxic pollution. Our study suggests four main findings. First, health impacts are a key concern for working-class communities. Second, the long-term effects of toxic pollution undermine communities' ability to act preventively. Third, industrial activities, waste management and nuclear energy conflicts are more likely to report health impacts than other economic activities. Last, mobilising groups are reluctant to consider the closure of a polluting project a successful outcome because of the persistence of toxic pollution across time. Our results contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of what we have termed 'environmental health conflicts' (EHCs).

A detached copy. ; In Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects . London, 1900. vol. VII, 3d ser. no. 11. ; Effects of injudicious legislation, by J. Honeyman.--Block dwellings: The associated and self-contained systems, by H. Spalding.--The later Peabody buildings, by W.E. Wallis.--The rebuilding of the boundary street estate, by O. Fleming.--Discussion. ; Mode of access: Internet.