CFP
Environmental Degradation and the Working Class
This panel seeks to examine the connections between environmental degradation and the poor and working-class people. Working people are often the ones who perform the jobs that result in ecological destruction. Performing this work is often a means a survival that yields short-term benefits, but often includes significant long-term consequences. Papers may cover any time period and can address the topic creatively. Questions may include, be need not be limited to: How does the process of environmental degradation change the people who enact it? How do working-class people respond to living in marginalized eco-zones? What can we learn from historical responses of working-class people to environmental degradation? This panel will be submitted for the Southern Labor Studies Association Conference: Expanding the Horizons of Southern Labor Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, September 11-13, 2020. Please send abstracts of 250 words or less and a short bio by January 13, 2020 to djmarquis@email.wm.edu