• DOI:10.1080/10455750902941102
• Corpus ID: 145509040

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}
}

• Daniel Jakopovich
• Published 1 June 2009
• Economics
• Capitalism Nature Socialism

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 attempts to explore some major aspects of these issues as they apply to the cooperation between the labor and environmental movements, primarily in United States. My intention with respect to the U.S. here is neither to analyze nor document the specific landscape of laborenvironmental interaction in that country, only to focus certain broader insights concerning the problems and dynamics of this interaction in developed Western countries more generally.