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Date(s) - Fri 9 May
11:00 - 12:00
The creation of decent, green jobs is necessary for a just transition off fossil fuels. This is especially true in the global South, where in many places jobs are insecure, informal and sit alongside high levels of unemployment and underemployment.
As one of the fastest-growing industries worldwide, renewable energy is leading the way in new green job creation. Existing research on renewable energy labour is heavily focused on the US and Europe and is mostly limited to describing different categories of renewable energy jobs.
There is an urgent need to better understand how renewable energy labour in the global South is changing or retaining existing working conditions.
In this seminar, Associate Professor Ben Radley will present his findings on how renewable energy labour has evolved differently in Rwanda and Papua New Guinea. He will draw on the concepts of “statecraft” and “labour regimes” from his ongoing research project in this area.
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