El impacto ambiental de la Refinería y Fundición de ENAMI-Ventanas en la revista La Unidad (1969-1973)

The Social Life of Phosphate on the Two Shores of the Mediterranean: Ecology, Work and Migration

This article focuses in on the extraction, travel, and processing of phosphate, tracing the commodities’ movements from Khouribga in Morocco to Porto Marghera in Italy. For decades, these two sites have been silently connected in what historian Simon Jackson calls the Phosphate Archipelago: a network of extractive and industrial spaces on the two shores of the Mediterranean, spaces once managed by the French empire. In what follows, the nature of their relation—bound, as ever, by phosphate—is...

Europe’s Industry and the Ecological Transition

In a context of ever-growing inequality, energy prices have been on everyone’s lips over the past year. Even in a rich continent such as Europe, there has been widespread concern about how much low-income households must spend on their bills. A related worry is the impact of the energy crisis on industry and thus on manufacturing jobs. On the one hand, reliance on catastrophically dirty fossil fuels means that factories are now exposed to massive cost hikes. On the other, the adoption of rene...

Converging Struggles: Working-Class Composition, Technological Development, and Ecological Politics

Looking back at the history of labor struggles since the advent of capitalism, one pattern is striking: struggles against the devaluation and for the decommodification of labor have tended to trigger ‘fixes’ and ‘innovations’ of capital, including technological ones. Thus, if the technologies of production are now more at the heart of catastrophic climate production than ever, the question is how current labor struggles can contribute to eco-social and decolonial ends, rather than fueling the...