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.