Working Through Planetary Breakdown: Labour, Skill and the Changing Climate [Hardcover]

Skill, industrial transformation and work in a climate changing world??PART I:? SKILLS and TRAINING? 1.Whats your apocalypse skill?: Revaluing Flexible Skills for the Apocalyptic Good-Life? 2.?Localising the Operation of Grid-Tied Microgrids for Future Resilience? 3.?Navigating Skills in Uncertain Energy Futures: Education, Skills and Training for the Australian Air-Conditioning Workforce? 4.?Quiet Sustainability: Tacit Knowledge and Emic Capacities in Building and Construction 5.?Creative technicians and technical creatives: Transferable Skills for Challenging Times? PART II: INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION??6.?A Transition with Teeth: Reconfiguring the Concept of Just Transition to Recognise the Imperative of Fossil Fuel Cessation??7.?Place-Sensitive Approaches to Coal Transitions in Australia??8.Industrial Democracy and Climate Struggle: The Limits and Possibilities of Using Health and Safety Committees to Promote Industrial Democracy and Address Climate Change??9.?Hot Under the PPE Collar: Occupational High Heat During the Covid-19 Pandemic??10.?Industrial Control and Capitalist Inefficiency: Manufacturing Workforce Development in the Polycrisis??11.?From Occupational Steering to Occupational Citizenship? Understanding Career Pathways After the Demise of Australian Automotive Manufacturing

Working through Planetary Breakdown offers a genuinely interdisciplinary engagement with the future of paid and unpaid work in the context of the twin challenges of decarbonisation and the growing impacts of an unstable climate.

Chantel Carr is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in Geography and Sustainability at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Chantel is a human geographer working on the social and labour dimensions of energy transitions and decarbonisation.

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