Work organizations represent a key interface for addressing both the climate crisis and intersecting inequalities. On the one hand, business-as-usual within work organizations is a central driver for accelerating the climate crisis as well as the growing inequalities within and between countries. On the other hand, work organizations are crucial agents for tackling global earth heating and intersecting inequalities as they bundle resources for inventing less polluting products and technologies as well as have a huge impact on the life opportunities of their individual (non-)members. However, the organizational level has been largely neglected in research on the entanglement of the climate crisis and social inequalities. Thus, we need to explore the relations, processes and practices at this intersection on the organizational level and identify alternative ways of organizing for hope and justice in times of socio-ecological crises.

The purpose of this workshop is to create a space for conversations and potential collaborations to (start to) address the multiple ecological crises in connection to issues of social justice in work organizations. For this, we turn to feminist, more-than-human, indigenous, de-/postcolonial and imaginary perspectives – and other voices at the margin – that can help us to analyze and fundamentally rethink the relations between work organizations and socio-ecological in/justices. Importantly, this workshop is for any scholar who is concerned about business-as-usual and wants to work on bridging the separation between social and ecological issues and imagining hopeful futures. This workshop is for you, even though you have not written a full paper on this topic yet!