Although humans are a part of nature, nature has traditionally been recognized as “the other” of labor. Labor has cut off labor and nature by perceiving job creation and environmental protection as separate goals, and as a result, delayed the emer...
Although humans are a part of nature, nature has traditionally been recognized as “the other” of labor. Labor has cut off labor and nature by perceiving job creation and environmental protection as separate goals, and as a result, delayed the emergence of nature as an integral part of the production process and as a collaborator of labor. Due to such historical antagonism between labor and nature, or the wrong dichotomy, nature (environment, ecology) failed to occupy even a single spot in the trade union movement or labor research. Recently, however, as the impact of
the climate crisis intensifies, the need to explore the “relationship” between labor and nature by including nature in labor research has been increasing.