Environmental and Labor History: Family Resemblances
Dossier Presentation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2025.e110055Keywords:
Labor History, environmental history, Class, natureAbstract
This article introduces the contributions to the special dossier on environmental and labor history. It traces the relationship between the fields of labor and environmental history, both historically and thematically. And it places the dossier’s contributions within this broader historiographical context, placing them in an evolving dialogue at the borderland between fields that stretches back several decades. This generative conversation has included some scholars considered founding members of environmental history.
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