Uniting to Win: Labor-Environmental Alliances
@article{Jakopovich2009UnitingTW, title={Uniting to Win: Labor-Environmental Alliances}, author={Daniel Jakopovich}, journal={Capitalism Nature Socialism}, year={2009}, volume={20}, pages={74 - 96} }
A mainstay of capitalist power is the capacity to divide those who would oppose it. Large numbers of potentially progressive groups, parties, movements, and constituencies regularly tend to clash, more often than not missing opportunities for cooperation and the achievement of a critical mass capable of affecting change. The questions arise: why should, why don’t, and how could these different political agents work together in order to achieve their individual and shared goals? This paper…
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