Table of Contents

Introduction, by Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong
Part I: The New Deal and the Green New Deal
1. From the New Deal to the Green New Deal, by Richard A. Walker
2. From Romance to Utilitarianism: Lessons on Work and Nature from the New Deal, by Hillary Angelo
3. A Green New Deal for Agriculture, by Raj Patel and Jim Goodman
Part II: What Is the Crisis of Work?
4. A Green New Deal for Care: Revaluing the Work of Social and Ecological Reproduction, by Alyssa Battistoni
5. Another World (of Work) Is Possible, by Stephanie Luce
6. Time for Rabble-Rousing: Lessons from the Historic Fight for Reduced Working Hours, by Wilson Sherwin
Part III: Delivering Jobs and Empowering Workers
7. Jobs for All: A Job Guarantee Puts Workers in the Driver’s Seat, by Dustin Guastella
8. Unions and the Green New Deal, by Mindy Isser
9. “Fancy Funeral” or Radical Rebirth? Just Transition and the Future of Work(ers) in the United States, by Todd E. Vachon
10. Overcoming the Tragedy of Growth Machines, by Harvey Molotch
Part IV: Transforming Infrastructure
11. A Green New Deal for Housing, by Daniel Aldana Cohen
12. Low-Carbon, High-Speed: How a Green New Deal Can Transform the Transportation Sector, by J. Mijin Cha and Lara Skinner
13. Redesigning Political Economy: The Promise and Peril of a Green New Deal for Energy, by Clark A. Miller
Part V: The Work of Building a Better Society
14. Community Control and the Climate Crisis: Power, Governance, and Racial Capitalism, by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
15. Rethinking the Green New Deal: From War to Work, by Harry C. Boyte and Trygve Throntveit
16. How to Create Good Jobs, a Sustainable Environment, and a Durable and Successful Left Political Alliance Through a Green New Deal, by Richard Lachmann
Acknowledgments
Index

About the Author

Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University. He was previously director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and president of the Social Science Research Council. His most recent book is Degenerations of Democracy (2022), with Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Charles Taylor.

Benjamin Y. Fong is associate director at the Center for Work and Democracy and Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University. He is the author of Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism (Columbia, 2016). His writing has also appeared in Jacobin, Catalyst, the New York Times, and Damage Magazine.

Reviews

A bold and penetrating collection of essays about the most important problems of our time.
*Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America*

Calhoun and Fong have crafted an erudite, timely, and often inspiring collection of essays about work and the Green New Deal. No other book I know looks at infrastructure and environment through the prism of labor, culture, and political economy. This will be an excellent resource for teaching, advocacy, and policy making.
*Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life*

As a slogan, the Green New Deal can at times be extended to include almost anything on the current U.S. left’s agenda. But what might it really mean? And how would it work? This book is a welcome intervention because it explores from numerous vantage points—often in real detail and with bracing honesty—the possibilities and limits invoked by the idea of a Green New Deal. Headlines will change, new emergencies will arise and fade, but the climate crisis is not going away. That is why this sort of discussion about realistic solutions is so necessary.
*Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence*

This book is an incredible (and rare) collection from both organizers and scholars on the key challenge of the twenty-first century: how to transform the world of work toward rapid decarbonization. It contains impressive historical depth on the model of the New Deal and explores how to make the Green version a reality.
*Matthew T. Huber, author of Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet*

Students, organizers, and academics alike will benefit from this book.
*H-Environment*