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A Green Unionist Bibliography

Submitted by x332349 on Wed, 07/30/2025 - 17:56

This website features an ample supply of articles on the subject of green unionism, but if you are looking for actual books, here is a bibliography (alphabetized by the author's last name)

  1. Aranoff, Kate, et. al. - A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (2019: Verso Books; review)
  2. Bari, Judi - Timber Wars (1994: Common Courage)
  3. Brecher, Jeremy - Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual (2017: PM Press)
  4. Brecher, Jeremy - The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People are Building a Just and Climate Safe Economy (2024: University of Illinois; review)
  5. Burgmann Meredith and Verity Burgmann - Green Bans, Red Union: The Saving of a City (2017: New South)
  6. Castro, Javier S. - Imperiled Life: Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe (2012: AK Press; review)
  7. Cha, J Mijin - A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon Free Future (2024: MIT Press)
  8. Cooley, Mike - Architect or Bee: The Human Price of Technology (2015: Spokesman Books)
  9. Dawson, Ashley - Environmentalism From Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet (2024: Haymarket)
  10. Dawson, Ashley - People's Power: Reclaiming The Energy Commons (2020: OR Books)
  11. Fairchild, Denise, et. al. Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions (2017: Island Press)
  12. Hamouchene, Hamza and Katie Sandwell - Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region (2023: Pluto Press)
  13. Jakobsen, Ove Daniel - Anarchism and Ecological Economics: A Transformative Approach to a Sustainable Future (2018: Routledge)
  14. Kaur Paul, Harpreet and Dalia Gebrial - Perspectives on a Global Green New Deal (2021: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung London and The Leap)
  15. Malm, Andreas - Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (2016: Verso)
  16. McNeill, Zane, ed. - Building Multispecies Resistance Against Exploitation: Stories from the Frontlines of Labor and Animal Rights (2024: Peter Lang)
  17. Mikulka, Justin - Bomb Trains: How Industry Greed and Regulatory Failure Put the Public at Risk (2019: independently published)
  18. Morena, Edouad and Dunja Krause and Dimitris Stevis, eds. - Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World (2019: Pluto Press)
  19. Neale, Jonathan - Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs (2021: Resistance Books; downloadable)
  20. Ongerth, Steve - Redwood Uprising (2014: online only at https://judibari.info; mirrored here: https://ecology.iww.org/texts/SteveOngerth/RedwoodUprising)
  21. Orodower, Jeff, ed., et. al. - Power Lines: Building a Labor Climate Justice Movement (2024: The New Press; review)
  22. Purchase, Graham - Anarchism and Ecology (1996: Black Rose)
  23. Rodrigues, Mariana and Siman Eden - All In: A Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse (2025: Now Books)
  24. The Salvage Collective - The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene (2021: Verso Books; review)
  25. Shantz, Jeff - Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red/Green Vision (2012: Syracuse University Press; review)
  26. Smith, Bren - Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer (2019: Knopf; review)
  27. Vachon, Todd - Clean Air and Good Jobs: US Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice (2023: Temple University Press)
  28. Van Deusen, David - Insurgent Labor: The Vermont AFL-CIO 2017–2023 (2023: PM Press)
  29. Wainwright, Hilary and Dave Elliot - The Lucas Plan: A New Trade Unionism in the Making (2018, second edition: Spokesman; review)
  30. Wetzel, Tom - Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century (2022: AK Press; review)

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