In this article, I investigate the origin, limits, and possibilities of just transition as a policy framework to support labor organizing in the energy sector. Just transition first emerged within the labor movement to describe measures to “make whole” workers laid off as the result of necessary environmental policy. Following Gidwani (2015 Gidwani, V. 2015. Antipode annual lecture: People without property in jobs. Accessed September 13, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS2M4vaxt34. [Google Scholar]), I analyze claims for income replacement or continued employment as an assertion of “jobs property” based on the collectively bargained standards that unions have negotiated for dangerous jobs in fossil fuel sectors. Although the uses of just transition have grown to encompass broader demands for a democratic and equitable shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy including energy, environmental, and climate justice, I observe that the objectives of labor-centered climate policy often remain focused on the defense of jobs property for dislocated workers. I argue compensation for the loss of jobs property is insufficient to address historical exclusions of people of color and women from energy industry employment or secure the livelihoods of dislocated workers given increasing precarity. Drawing from more than eighty interviews and field work with energy justice campaigns in Atlanta, I consider the case of energy-sector workers in the U.S. South to center a just transition framework that reconstitutes a social wage to address the uneven spatial development of the U.S. labor market.

在这篇文章中，我调查了公正转型作为支持能源部门劳工组织的政策框架的起源、局限性和可能性。公正转型首先出现在劳工运动中，描述了由于必要的环境政策而导致“整体”工人下岗的措施。以下 Gidwani ( 2015 Gidwani, V. 2015 年。Antipode年度讲座：工作中没有财产的人。2021 年 9 月 13 日访问。https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS2M4vaxt34。 [谷歌学术])，我根据工会为化石燃料行业的危险工作谈判达成的集体谈判标准，将收入替代或继续就业的主张分析为“工作财产”的主张。尽管公正转型的用途已经扩大到包括从化石燃料到可再生能源的民主和公平转变的更广泛需求，包括能源、环境和气候正义，但我观察到以劳工为中心的气候政策的目标通常仍然侧重于国防下岗工人的工作财产。我认为，对失去工作财产的补偿不足以解决有色人种和妇女历史上被排斥在能源行业就业之外的问题，也不足以确保因日益不稳定而失业的工人的生计。