Understanding the labour–environmental relationship in Britain, 1967–2011: a new narrative using political opportunity structure and coalition theory.

Orthodox depictions of a fraught labour–environmental relationship privileging class, ideological and programmatic differences are problematised by newly quantified evidence of British unions' pro-environmental policy-making since 1967. The following narrative blends widely accepted accounts of the...

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Publicado en:Labor History Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 427 - 448
Autor principal: Farnhill, Tom
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2014
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Sumario:Orthodox depictions of a fraught labour–environmental relationship privileging class, ideological and programmatic differences are problematised by newly quantified evidence of British unions' pro-environmental policy-making since 1967. The following narrative blends widely accepted accounts of the fortunes of both movements with an evaluation of Britain's shifting political opportunity structure and coalition theory to identify an alternative range of constraints and opportunities influencing the propensity and capacity of both movements to interact effectively, culminating recently in unions' emergence as environmental actors in their own right.