Working capital
Subtitle: the power of labor's pensions
By: edited by Archon Fung, Tessa Hebb, and Joel Rogers ; with a foreword by Leo W. Gerard.
Contributors: Fung, Archon, 1968-; Hebb, Tessa.; Rogers, Joel, 1952-
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Pension trusts -- Investments -- United States; Labor unions -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the challenge of labor's capital strategy / Tessa Hebb; title: Collateral damage : do pension fund investments hurt workers? / Dean Baker and Archon Fung; title: Social funds in the United States : their history, financial performance and social impacts / Eric Becker and Patrick McVeigh; title: Labor's role in the shareholder revolution / Marleen O'Connor; title: Building on success : labor-friendly investment vehicles and the power of private equity / Michael Calabrese; title: Canadian labour sponsored investment funds : a model for U.S. economically targeted investments / Tessa Hebb and David Mackenzie; title: Small benefits, big pension funds, and how governance reform can close the gap / Teresa Ghilarducci; title: Overcoming institutional barriers on the ETI Superhighway / Jayne Zanglein; title: Challenging Wall Street's conventional wisdom : defining a worker-owner view of value / Damon Silvers, Bill Patterson, J.W. Mason.