Chapter Skill, industrial transformation and work in a climate-changing world

This book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary engagement with the future of paid and unpaid work in the context of the twin challenges of decarbonisation and the growing impacts of an unstable climate. It is innovative in its grounding of such discussions in the everyday realities of workers’ exper...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Carr, Chantel, Stein, Jesse Adams
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منشور في: Taylor & Francis 2025
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