Organsing in Coal Mines and Car Plants for climate, with Nicole González

This week on the show we are joined by  Nicole Kleinheisterkamp-González  a PHD candidate at Syracuse University in New York state. Nicole's research is to bring the analysis of Labour and union organising into geography. Her field work has taken her to working in coal mines and car plants to understand the lives of workers in the US and Germany,  and how their political formations are changing with the pressures of climate change.

Can workers from carbon heavy industries be the frontline in the just transition? Can the climate movement and workers come together to save the planet?



Links
Nicole's research paper 
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03091325231154222

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