Going green - Turning labor: a qualitative analysis of the approaches of union officials working with environmental issues in Sweden and the United Kingdom
2017
42
3
180-199
trade union ; climate change ; environmental policy ; trade union officer ; comparison
Trade unionism
https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449X17704054
English
Bibliogr.
"What conditions shape the introduction of climate change issues into trade union organizations? This article analyzes life-history interviews with two union organization leaders working with climate issues—one in Sweden and one in the United Kingdom—discussing how their individual backgrounds, as well as the different organizational and national contexts in which they work, create different conditions and strategies for developing an environmental union agenda. The analysis discusses how the strategies of the Scandinavian leader focus on policy development, and compares this with how the U.K. union leader focuses primarily on the interests of, and conflicts with, members when integrating climate change in their respective organizations."
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