The Green New Deal and the Future of Work

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A bold and penetrating collection of essays about the most important problems of our time. -- Frances Fox Piven, author of <i>Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America</i> Calhoun and Fong have crafted an erudite, timely, and often inspiring collection of essays about work and the Green New Deal. No other book I know looks at infrastructure and environment through the prism of labor, culture, and political economy. This will be an excellent resource for teaching, advocacy, and policy making. -- Eric Klinenberg, author of <i>Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life</i> As a slogan, the Green New Deal can at times be extended to include almost anything on the current U.S. left's agenda. But what might it really mean? And how would it work? This book is a welcome intervention because it explores from numerous vantage points-often in real detail and with bracing honesty-the possibilities and limits invoked by the idea of a Green New Deal. Headlines will change, new emergencies will arise and fade, but the climate crisis is not going away. That is why this sort of discussion about realistic solutions is so necessary. -- Christian Parenti, author of <i>Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence</i> This book is an incredible (and rare) collection from both organizers and scholars on the key challenge of the twenty-first century: how to transform the world of work toward rapid decarbonization. It contains impressive historical depth on the model of the New Deal and explores how to make the Green version a reality. -- Matthew T. Huber, author of <i>Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet</i> Students, organizers, and academics alike will benefit from this book. * H-Environment *