Labor in the Age of Finance : Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank /

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From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalismSince the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically, as has their economic clout. Labor in the Age of Finance traces the search for new sources of power, s...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jacoby, Sanford M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Corporate governance > United States > History > 20th century.
Corporate governance > United States > History > 21st century.
Financialization > United States > History > 20th century.
Financialization > United States > History > 21st century.
Labor movement > United States > History > 20th century.
Labor movement > United States > History > 21st century.
Labor unions > United States > History > 20th century.
Labor unions > United States > History > 21st century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor.
AFL-CIO.
American labor unions.
CalPERS.
Campaign GM.
Carl Kaysen.
Employee Retirement Security Act.
FASB.
Goldman Sachs.
IBEW.
Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Hoffa.
Lloyd Ulman.
Michael Eisner.
Michael Ovitz.
NLRB.
National Labor Relations Board.
Piketty.
Ralph Nader.
Ronald Reagan.
SEC.
Saul Alinsky.
Taft-Hartley Act.
Teamsters.
Treaty of Detroit.
UAW.
UFCW.
United Auto Workers.
United Steelworkers.
Walter Reuther.
collective bargaining.
history of labor.
labor reform.
organized labor.
shareholder activism.
shareholder democracy.
union investors.
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Sumario:From award-winning economic historian Sanford M. Jacoby, a fascinating and important study of the labor movement and shareholder capitalismSince the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically, as has their economic clout. Labor in the Age of Finance traces the search for new sources of power, showing how unions turned financialization to their advantage.Sanford Jacoby catalogs the array of allies and finance-based tactics labor deployed to stanch membership losses in the private sector. By leveraging pension capital, unions restructured corporate governance around issues like executive pay and accountability. In Congress, they drew on their political influence to press for corporate reforms in the wake of business scandals and the financial crisis. The effort restrained imperial CEOs but could not bridge the divide between workers and owners. Wages lagged behind investor returns, feeding the inequality identified by Occupy Wall Street. And labor's slide continued.A compelling blend of history, economics, and politics, Labor in the Age of Finance explores the paradox of capital bestowing power to labor in the tumultuous era of Enron, Lehman Brothers, and Dodd-Frank.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (368 p.) : 2 b/w illus. 5 tables.
ISBN:9780691217215
9783110754049
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110753820
9783110739121
Acceso:restricted access

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