Work in a Warming World (Queen's Policy Studies Series, 184) (Volume 184) - Softcover

Lipsig-Mummé, Carla; McBride, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1553394321 ISBN 13: 9781553394327

Publisher: Queen's Policy Studies, 2015

Synopsis

Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts.

The world of work - goods, services, and resources - produces most of the greenhouse gases created by human activity. In engaging essays, contributors demonstrate how the world of work and the labour movement need to become involved in the struggle to slow global warming, and the ways in which environmental and economic policies need to be linked dynamically in order to effect positive change.

Addressing the dichotomy of competing public policies in a Canadian context, Work in a Warming World presents ways of creating an effective response to global warming and key building blocks toward a national climate strategy.

About this title

About the Author

Carla Lipsig-Mummé is professor of work and labour studies at York University.

From the Back Cover

Series Editor: Kim Richard Nossal

The School of Policy Studies is a premier publisher of policy related material in Canada. Its publication program includes the research work of the School, the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and the following sub-series: Canada: The State of the Federation, Migration and Diversity: Comparative Issues and International Comparisons. The School has its own high-quality publishing system.

Publications are distributed by McGill-Queen's University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Queen's Policy Studies
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1553394321
• ISBN 13: 9781553394327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254