期刊
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
卷 225, 期 -, 页码 173-180出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.284
关键词
Trade unions; (Un-)sustainable production and consumption patterns; Ecological modernization; Imperial mode of living; Social-ecological transformation; Solidaristic way of living
资金
- Austrian Climate and Energy Fund
- programme ACRP 6th Call
In scholarly and political debates on transformation towards sustainability or along social-ecological lines, employees and trade unions are hardly ever mentioned. The latter still largely represent a perspective that could be summarized as jobs versus environment and formulate their environmental strategies within the confines of ecological modernization, if indeed at all-i.e. they do not question the orientation towards growth, capitalist power and production relations or a destructive societal nature relations. it was strong trade unions who won historical achievements for large parts of the population, but these achievements simultaneously deepened the problematic aspects of a mode of production and living which we call the imperial mode of living. This antinomy needs to be considered and dealt with politically. This paper examines the results of a multi-year empirical project on the views of Austrian trade unions on social-ecological transformation. It shows that, while there are already some important initiatives, these do not address the main challenge, i.e. the imperial mode of living. However, some entry points for a possible politicization of unsustainable production and consumption emerge from our research, along with a view of the role of trade unions in this politicization. One approach is to overcome the narrow equation of well-being with capitalist economic growth and to replace it with a more comprehensive understanding of well-being and quality of life. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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