Labor-environmental Coalitions

Describes why and how applied research carried out in a national public health program sometimes influenced program action in the field-and sometimes did not. This title presents and analyses a number of case studies to draw some practical lessons and to provide a theoretical basis for future program action.

Thomas Estabrook, Charles Levenstein, John Wooding

Chapter 1: Labor and Environment: Out of Crisis a Progressive Spark Chapter 2: Building a Theory of Labor-Community Coalitions Chapter 3: Labor-Environmental History: From Collaboration to Division and Back Again Chapter 4: The BASF Lockout and the Origins of the Louisiana Labor-Neighbor Project Chapter 5: The Flow and Ebb of the Louisiana Labor-Neighbor Project Chapter 6: Building Winning Labor-Community Politics References Index