Workers of the earth
labour, ecology and reproduction in the age of climate change
- ISBN: 9780745343877
- Editorial: Pluto Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 208
- Idiomas: Inglés
Capitalism is destroying our planet, but like most social progress in the last two centuries, ecological justice can only be achieved through working-class struggle.
In Workers of the Earth, Stefania Barca uncovers the environmental history and political ecology of labour to shed new light on the potentiality of workers as ecological subjects. Taking an ecofeminist approach, this ground-breaking book makes a unique contribution to the emerging field of environmental labour studies, expanding the category of labour to include waged and unwaged, industrial and meta-industrial workers.
Going beyond conventional categories of 'production' and 'reproduction' as separate spheres of human experience, Barca offers a fresh perspective on the place of labour in today's global climate struggle, reminding us that the fight against climate change is a fight against capitalism.
Introduction: Labour in the Great Acceleration (1945 to Present)
Part I: History
1. Labouring the Earth: Transnational Reflections on the Environmental History of Work
2. Bread and Poison: Stories of Labour Environmentalism in Italy, 1968-98
3. Refusing 'Nuclear Housework': Sex, Race, Class, (Dis)ability, and the Political Ecology of Care
4. Taking Care of the Amazon: On Interspecies Commoning in the South of Para, Brazil
Illustrations
Part II: Political Ecology 5. Greening the Job: Trade Unions, Climate Change and the Political Ecology of Labour
6. Labour and the Ecological Crisis: The Ecomodernist Dilemma in Western Marxism(s)
7. The Labour(s) of Degrowth
Epilogue: Care Work in the Post-Carbon Transition: Reflections on the Global Climate Jobs Campaign
