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Book SynopsisIn 1984, the oil, chemical and atomic workers began a 5-year campaign to win back the jobs of its members locked out by the BASF Corp. in Geismar, Louisiana. The multiscale campaign involved coalitions with local environmentalists as well as international solidarity from environmental and religious organizations. The local coalition which helped break the lockout was maintained and expanded in the 1990s. This alliance is one of numerous labor-community coalitions to emerge increasingly over the past 20 years.Labor-Environmental Coalitions: Lessons from a Louisiana Petrochemical Region traces the development of the Louisiana Labor-Neighbor Project from 1985 to the present, within the context of a long history of divisions between labor and community in the U.S. The Project continued after the lockout, thriving during 1990s, expanding from one community to four counties to include 20 local member organizations, and broadening its agenda from the original jobs crisis and pollution problem
Table of ContentsChapter 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
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