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- Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Nevada Press
summary
This collection of essays examines the relationship between environmental injustice and the exploitation of working-class people. Twelve scholars from the fields of environmental humanities and the humanistic social sciences explore connections between the current and unprecedented rise of environmental degradation, economic inequality, and widespread social injustice in the United States and Canada.
The authors challenge prevailing cultural narratives that separate ecological and human health from the impacts of modern industrial capitalism. Essay themes range from how human survival is linked to nature to how the use and abuse of nature benefit the wealthy elite at the expense of working-class people and the working poor as well as how climate change will affect cultures deeply rooted in the land.
Ultimately, Working on Earth calls for a working-class ecology as an integral part of achieving just and sustainable human development.
The authors challenge prevailing cultural narratives that separate ecological and human health from the impacts of modern industrial capitalism. Essay themes range from how human survival is linked to nature to how the use and abuse of nature benefit the wealthy elite at the expense of working-class people and the working poor as well as how climate change will affect cultures deeply rooted in the land.
Ultimately, Working on Earth calls for a working-class ecology as an integral part of achieving just and sustainable human development.
Table of Contents
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- Part I Working for a Living
- Chapter 1 Raining in Vietnam
- pp. 13-32
- Chapter 3 “The Rich Go Higher”
- pp. 58-77
- Chapter 4 Beyond Boom and Bust
- pp. 78-98
- Part II The Ways We Work
- Chapter 5 Requiem for Landscape
- pp. 101-122
- Chapter 7 Bright Lights, Big City Ills
- pp. 143-155
- Chapter 8 From Orchards to Cubicles
- pp. 156-176
- Part III The Workers and the Land
- Chapter 9 “It’s a Different World”
- pp. 179-196
- Chapter 10 Working Wilderness
- pp. 197-218
- Chapter 11 “Survival Is Triumph Enough”
- pp. 219-239
- Contributors
- pp. 259-262
Additional Information
ISBN
9780874179644
Related ISBN(s)
9780874179637
MARC Record
OCLC
908634726
Pages
295
Launched on MUSE
2015-10-18
Language
English
Open Access
No