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

该项目审查了科学知识的战略性使用，以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在识别工作场所和一般环境中的健康风险方面的异同。该项目将研究如何通过联合考虑职业健康和环境健康科学来在两个运动之间形成成功的联盟，这两个领域历来是相互独立的领域。研究社会运动的学者越来越多地试图开发更复杂的方法，并扩大他们的调查范围，将科学、技术、卫生和环境领域的社会运动包括在内。该项目将有助于理解概念和风险框架(例如，环境正义、公正过渡)以及熟悉度和经验在促进或干扰建立联盟的努力方面所发挥的作用。该研究项目有三项任务。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努力案例。将从这些案例中选出四个用于第二项任务，包括对两个成功的和两个不成功的联盟建立案例进行访谈和观察。这些案件将包括加入工会的和未加入工会的劳工组织，每个组织都有成功和不成功的努力。第三项任务是对一个劳工组织的历史研究，该组织在建立劳工-环境联盟方面发挥了重要作用。该项目提供研究生培训机会，其重点是该大学一个正在进行的研究小组感兴趣的。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，并可能为不同群体之间的联盟建设带来新的机会。

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.