کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6557432 1422560 2018 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The role of labour power in sustainability transitions: Insights from comparative political economy on Germany's electricity transition
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
نقش نیروی کار در تغییرات پایداری: بینش از اقتصاد سیاسی مقایسه ای در انتقال برق آلمان
کلمات کلیدی
انتقال پایدار، اقتصاد سیاسی، نیروی کار، سیاست گذار، آلمان،
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی انرژی (عمومی)
چکیده انگلیسی
Greenhouse-gas-emission-reductions to prevent dangerous levels of climate change require a global transition away from fossil-fuel energies. Sustainability transitions of such scale present a major redistribution process, and pose severe challenges to national policy-making. While power and politics have recently been addressed by scholars of sustainability transition, the role of labour as a central political actor is still underexplored. This article aims to close this gap by engaging theories from Comparative Political Economy, asking: How does labour power influence energy transitions? Specifically, we introduce power resources theory to Kuzemko et al.'s (2016) “forces for continuity” of fossil-fuel regimes and “forces for sustainable change”. We illustrate the resulting framework with the case of the German electricity transition. Our findings include a) the potential of organised labour to tip the scales in energy transition politics towards continuity or change, b) the relevance of unions' political access and their internal homogeneity of interests as power resources, c) the aspect of potential changes in unions' positions over time, and d) avenues for labour in green sectors to gain power resources by organising in small but homogeneous organisations, and/or by prevailing in the internal power struggles of larger but heterogeneous organisations.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Energy Research & Social Science - Volume 41, July 2018, Pages 210-219
نویسندگان
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