Fighting in the name of workers: Exploring the dynamics of labour-environmental conflicts in Kerala

Satheesh, Silpa (2021) Fighting in the name of workers: Exploring the dynamics of labour-environmental conflicts in Kerala. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 199-223. ISBN 978-3-030-71909-8

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Abstract

Existing research explains labour-environmental conflicts in terms of the jobs versus the environment trade-off that pits working-class trade unions against middle-class environmental movements. Such singular conceptions of environmentalism as a middle-class phenomenon overlook the historic and contemporary exemplars of environmental movements organized by poor and working-class participants in the Global South. Using a case from Kerala, a South Indian state with a unique model of development and history of working-class struggles, this chapter explores the dynamics of labour-environmental conflicts when working-class participants constitute both movements. The chapter seeks to explain labour-environmental conflicts based on the heterogeneity of workers’ interest, the hegemony of capital, and the embeddedness of workers within the political economy of industrial development.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Satheesh, Silpa
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID Räthzel, Nora UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Stevis, Dimitris UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Uzzell, David UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Economics > Labor economics > Labor force and market Social sciences > Law > Labor, social, education & cultural law > Miscellaneous social problems and services > Environmental protection
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Development
Full Text Status:	None
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7437
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71909-8_9

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