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The elusive green-collar job
With all the upbeat talk about an environmental labor boom, is rhetoric running away from reality? |
Adam Stein |
11 Jan 2008 |
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| Someone help me puzzle this out: Proposition 1: A shift to renewable energy and energy efficiency will result in a boom in green-collar jobs -- good service-industry work that can't be outsourced. This proposition is attractive because it holds forth the promise of a grand alliance between greens and the labor movement. See, e.g., Tom Friedman and everyone who posts on Grist. Proposition 2: The optimism over green-collar jobs is a classic example of the make-work bi ... |
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