What is it about?
This is a critical review of the existing literature on labor-environmental relations from a Global South standpoint. Offering a detailed overview of studies that examine labor-environmental relations, the article identifies the gap and calls out how that limits the research on labor-environmental conflicts in the Global South.
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Why is it important?
Existing literature explains labor-environmental conflicts as one between working-class trade unions/labor movements and middle-class environmentalists. This reading overlooks much of the environmental movements that are organized by poor and working-class communities. In this context, this article shows how such conceptualizations fail to explain labor-environmental tensions when both movements have working-class members. And in doing so highlights the need to move beyond class as an explanatory factor.
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Writing this article paved the way for rest of my project on labor-environmental conflicts in Kerala, India. It set the tone for the inquiry which attempted to address some of the challenges and gaps identified in this review.
Dr. Silpa Satheesh
Mahatma Gandhi University
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This page is a summary of: Moving beyond class: A critical review of labor‐environmental conflicts from the global south, Sociology Compass, April 2020, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12797.
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