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[D]escribes the international state of play for bringing the world of work into the struggle to green advanced economies, including the EU, Australia, the US, profiling Canada's strategic paralysis. -- Editor's introduction
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Climate change is having an increasingly significant impact on work in Canada, and the effect climate change has, and will continue to have, on work concerns many Canadians. However, this fact has not been seriously considered either in academic circles, in the labour movement nor especially by the Canadian government. Climate@Work addresses this deficit by systematically tackling the question of the impact of climate change on work and employment and by analyzing Canada’s conservative silence towards climate change and the Canadian government’s refusal to take it seriously.--Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction. Section 1: Contexts.Changing Patterns in the Literature of Climate Change and Canadian Work: The Research of Academics, Government and Social Actors / Elizabeth Perry -- Climate, Work and Labour: the International Context / Carla Lipsig-Mummé --International Trade Agreements and the Ontario Green Energy Act: Opportunities and Obstacles / Stephen McBride & John Shields. Section 2: Sectors. The Impact of Climate Change on Employment and Skills Requirements in the Construction Industry / John O’Grady -- Climate Change and Labour in the Energy Sector / Marjorie Griffin Cohen & John Calvert -- The Transportation Equipment Industry / John Holmes, with Austin Hracs -- The Forestry Industry / John Holmes -- Tourism, Climate Change and the Missing Worker: Uneven Impacts, Institutions and Response / Steven Tufts -- Climate Change and Work and Employment in the Canadian Postal and Courier Sector / Meg Gingrich, Sarah Ryan & Geoff Bickerton. Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196).
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[D]iscusses the surprising silence in English-language academic publishing on climate warming since 1995, finding that four-fifths of the research published is grey literature: reports and commissioned research, rather than publications in traditional, peer-reviewed journals. Why have the mainstream social sciences failed to invest in this important new field of research? What are the implications? -- Editor's introduction
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Analyzes the impact of climate change and climate policy on employment in the forest industry. --Editor's introduction
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Analyzes the impact of climate change and climate policy on employment in the tourism industry. --Editor's introduction
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[Analyzes] the impact of both climate change and climate policy on employment in construction. --Editor's introduction
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[Examines] the trade challenges to Ontario's Green Energy Act, exploring both the obstacles that international agreements pose to building an integrated economic strategy around the transition to cleaner energy and the opportunities. --Editor's introduction
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Analyzes the impact of climate change and climate policy on employment and skill requirements in the transportation equipment industry. --Editor's introduction
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[Analyzes] the impact of both climate change and climate policy on employment in the energy sector. --Editor's introduction
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[Examines] the relationship between climate and postal work, including mail transport, energy use in postal facilities and paper production. --Authors' introduction
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