Blue and Green Shades of Health: The Comparative Framing of Health Risks in the Labor and Environmental Movements

健康的蓝色和绿色色调：劳工和环境运动中健康风险的比较框架

• 批准号: 0350691
• 负责人: Phil Brown
• 金额: $ 17.99万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-02-15 至 2008-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0350691&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Blue; Green; Shades; Health; Comparative

This project examines the strategic use of scientific knowledge to facilitate coalition building between social movements. Its focus is on similarities and differences in how labor organizations and environmental organizations identify health risks in the workplace and the general environment. The project will study how successful coalitions may be formed between the two movements by jointly considering occupational health and environmental health science, which have historically been discrete areas. Scholars who study social movements are increasingly trying to develop more complex approaches and expand their inquiries to include social movements in science, technology, health, and the environment. This project will assist in understanding the roles played by concepts and framing of risks (e.g., environmental justice, just transition) and by familiarity and experience, in facilitating or interfering with attempts to build alliances. The research project has three tasks. First, approximately 20 cases of successful and unsuccessful efforts at coalition building will be identified through an extensive literature review and survey of leaders in the labor and environmental movements. From these cases, four will be selected for the second task, involving interviews and observations of two successful and two unsuccessful cases of coalition building. The cases will include unionized and non-unionized labor organizations, each with a successful and unsuccessful effort. The third task is an historical study of one labor organization that has been significantly involved in the establishment of labor-environmental coalitions. The project provides graduate training opportunities, and its focus is of interest to an ongoing research group at the university. Besides scholarly publications, dissemination to labor and environmental groups and to government agencies is planned and can lead to new opportunities for coalition building between diverse groups.

该项目研究如何战略性地利用科学知识促进社会运动之间的联盟建设。 它的重点是劳工组织和环境组织如何识别工作场所和一般环境中的健康风险的相似性和差异。 该项目将研究如何通过共同考虑职业健康和环境健康科学，这两个运动之间可能形成成功的联盟，这在历史上一直是离散的领域。 研究社会运动的学者越来越多地试图开发更复杂的方法，并将他们的研究范围扩大到包括科学，技术，健康和环境方面的社会运动。 本项目将有助于理解风险概念和框架所起的作用（例如，环境正义、公正过渡）以及熟悉程度和经验，在促进或干扰建立联盟的努力方面起着重要作用。 该研究项目有三个任务。 首先，通过广泛的文献回顾和对劳工和环境运动领导人的调查，将确定大约20个成功和不成功的联盟建设案例。 从这些案例中，将选出四个进行第二项任务，包括对两个成功和两个不成功的联盟建立案例进行访谈和观察。 案件将包括工会和非工会劳工组织，每一个成功和不成功的努力。 第三个任务是对一个劳工组织进行历史研究，该组织在劳工环境联盟的建立中发挥了重要作用。 该项目提供研究生培训机会，其重点是在大学正在进行的研究小组的兴趣。 除了学术出版物外，还计划向劳工和环境团体以及政府机构进行传播，这可能会为不同团体之间建立联盟带来新的机会。