Stefania Barca is an environmental historian and a feminist political ecologist. She is the author of Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene and of Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, which was awarded the Turku Environmental History Book Prize.

Introduction
Part I - History
1. Bread and poison - The story of labor environmentalism in Italy, 1968-1998
2. Laboring the earth - Transnational reflections on the environmental history of work
3. Taking care of the Amazon: life and work in the Agro-Ecology Project (PAE)
Part II - Political ecology
4. Greening the job - Trade unions, climate change and the political ecology of labour
5. The Labor(s) of Degrowth
6. Labour and the ecological crisis: The eco-modernist dilemma in western Marxism(s)
Epilogue - Towards a Feminist Green New Deal

Capitalism is destroying our planet, but like most social progress in the last two centuries, ecological justice can only be achieved through working-class struggle.

In Workers of the Earth, Stefania Barca uncovers the environmental history and political ecology of labour to shed new light on the potentiality of workers as ecological subjects. Taking an ecofeminist approach, this ground-breaking book makes a unique contribution to the emerging field of environmental labour studies, expanding the category of labour to include waged and unwaged, industrial and meta-industrial workers.

Going beyond conventional categories of 'production' and 'reproduction' as separate spheres of human experience, Barca offers a fresh perspective on the place of labour in today's global climate struggle, reminding us that the fight against climate change is a fight against capitalism.