A fraught and yet necessary relationship: Erik Kojola, ‘Whose Labour, Whose Land? Indigenous and Labour Conflicts and Alliances over Resource Extraction’, in Nora Räthzel, Dimitris Stevis, David Uzzell (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies, Palgrave, 2021, pp. 365-387 | settler colonial studies blog

A fraught and yet necessary relationship: Erik Kojola, ‘Whose Labour, Whose Land? Indigenous and Labour Conflicts and Alliances over Resource Extraction’, in Nora Räthzel, Dimitris Stevis, David Uzzell (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies, Palgrave, 2021, pp. 365-387

06Sep21

Abstract: Relationships between labour movements and Indigenous peoples are important for understanding the interconnections between settler colonialism, capitalism, and environmental crises. These relationships are also relevant for assessing contemporary environmental politics and possibilities for union revitalization and mobilizing climate justice coalitions. Yet, there is limited research on labour-Indigenous relationships. This chapter argues that scholarship is needed on how and why unions and Indigenous groups have conflicted and aligned around the environment and resource extraction. The U.S. and Canada are used as emblematic settler colonial countries to examine the history of Indigenous people’s relationships to unions and the importance of land and sovereignty. Possibilities for divisions and solidarity around energy and climate justice are illustrated through the Dakota Access Pipeline protest movement in the U.S.

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