Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis
Environmental Education Research
2023
Early view
1-15
climate change ; culture ; trade union education ; trade union role
Environment
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2273792
English
Bibliogr.
"This article argues for the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis, a vital form of education too often overlooked in the climate movement. Drawing on a case study of unionized culture workers in the United Kingdom, the article seeks to show the distinctive embedded nature of labor education. Success of labor education on the climate crisis hinges not so much on a particular pedagogy or curriculum in any one classroom setting, but on the ways in which a range of formal and informal educational actors and spaces work together across the labor and environmental movements, as part of a mobilizing project that seeks to link worker interests directly to the climate crisis, and identify actions that workers can take to address the crisis effectively. Labor education has a central role to play in ensuring a just transition in the move away from a fossil fuel based economy."
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