This book offers a timely exploration of how climate change manifests in the global workplace. Drawing together scholars from anthropology, political economy, geography and development studies, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change adaptation, labour studies and environmental justice.
Nithya Natarajan is Lecturer in international development at King's College, London. Her work focuses on South India and Cambodia, and explores agrarian change, rural-urban livelihoods, labour precarity, gender, and debt.
Laurie Parsons is a Lecturer in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. His work examines the contested politics of climate change on socio-economic inequalities, patterns of work, and mobilities.
1. Introduction: Climate Change in the Global Workplace Part 1: Labour 2. Thermal Inequality in a Changing Climate 3. Climate Change Adaptation through Agroecology in Senegal 4. Routes to Food Security Part 2: Adaptation 5. Old Ways and New Routes: Climate Threats and Adaptive Possibilities in the Indian Himalayas 6. From Climate Adaptation to Social Reproductive Resistance 7. Hands That Adapt: Seasonal Labour Migration, Climate Change and the Making of Adaptable Subjects in Turkey Part 3: Resistance 8. Workers and Environmentalists of the World Unite? 9. A Changing Climate: Indigenous Participation in Extractive Industry 10. Climate Change is Class War 11. Conclusion: Towards a Reworking of Climate Adaptation as Labour 'Resistance'