Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy : Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Background -- Chapter 1 Energy, Manufacturing, and the Changing Global Economy -- Chapter 2 Green Jobs and the Green Energy Transition -- Part II Policies and Politics -- Chapter 3 Green Industrial Policy and the 111th Congress -- Chapter 4 State Governments and the Greening of Import Substitution -- Chapter 5 The Greening of Regional Industrial Clusters -- Chapter 6 Localist Alternatives to the Mainstream Transition -- Part III Processes and Explanations -- Chapter 7 Green Transition Coalitions and Geographical Unevenness -- Chapter 8 After 2010: Continued Unevenness in the Green Transition -- Conclusion -- Appendix: State Government Votes for Green Energy Laws -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Urban and Industrial Environments Series.

An examination of the politics of green jobs that foresees a potential ideological shift away from neoliberalism toward "developmentalism.".

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