In its original form, this was a draft policy text written to initiate a discussion in Greenpeace Canada on “labor, jobs, and the environment.” While most of the specific references to Greenpeace have been removed, I remain grateful to the organization's campaigners who gave me the benefit of their thoughts: Helen Armstrong, John Bennett, Stan Gray, Christine Houghton, David Kraft, Michael Manolsen, Dan McDermott, Jay Paulter, David Peerla and Gord Perks.
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The issue has been explored by KazisRichard and GrossmanRichard in Fear at Work: Labor and the Environment, New York: Pilgrim Press, 1982.
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GlennWilliam, Jobs and the Environment, Some Preliminary Number Crunching, a paper prepared in 1986 for the “Conference on Jobs and the Environment,” organized by the Ontario Environment Network.
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Study of the Environmental Protection Industry, Woods Gordon Management Consultants, prepared for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, 1989.
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SchreckerTed, “Resisting Regulation: Environmental Policy and Corporate Power,”Alternatives, 9, p. 12.
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PorterMichael E., The Competitive Advantage of Nations.
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The Superfund proposal has been developed in the U.S., most notably by the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union. It is outlined in detail in Worker Empowerment in a Changing Economy, by WykleLucindaMorehouseWard, and DemboDavid, Apex Press, 1991.
