Part IX: introduction

Andrew Herod

A chapter in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 508-515 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The four chapters in this part of the book explore questions of the natural world and how workers intersect with it. The first chapter examines questions around calls for instigating a ‘just transition’ to a ‘green’ and ‘caring’ economy and what this might mean for how work is organised. The second chapter looks at the politics surrounding efforts to transition away from carbon-based forms of energy in Germany through creating a municipally-owned electricity grid in Hamburg and through creating a broader network or labour activists dedicated to developing ‘energy democracy’. The third chapter delves into the politics of managing British Columbia's forests in the 1930s and in the contemporary period. In doing so, it details how crises of accumulation during the Great Depression and more recently have been addressed through producing the forests in different ways. The last chapter considers some of the spatial issues involved in transitioning away from fossil fuels and why many workers often oppose such efforts.

Keywords: Green New Deal; COVID-19; Racial capitalism; Essential workers; Trade Unions for Energy Democracy; Fossil fuel; Post-carbon future; Young Men’s Forestry Training Plan; Carbon economy; Coal; Oil; Green jobs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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