What is it about?
This article describes the campaigns organized by labor-community coalitions to reduce pollution created by petrochemical plants in Louisiana and Bahia by doing a comparative analysis of the actors and strategies followed in both situations. It is a comparison of two case studies of movements against chemical pollution by similar plants and somewhat similar populations in both countries.
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Because it compares two different scenarios in two different countries and shows what was common and different in both cases, but it also highlights the factors that contributed to victories in both places. It adds to the literature on social movements for environmental justice by providing political analysis of the barriers and successes of a campaign that took place in a developed (US) and a developing country (Brazil).
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This page is a summary of: Labor‐community alliances in petrochemical regions in the United States and Brazil: What does it take to win?, Capitalism Nature Socialism, September 2000, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10455750009358935.
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