The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder : : Labor’s Last Best Weapon / / David Webber.

When Steven Burd, CEO of the supermarket chain Safeway, cut wages and benefits, starting a five-month strike by 59,000 unionized workers, he was confident he would win. But where traditional labor action failed, a novel approach was more successful. With the aid of the California Public Employees’ R...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (310 p.) :; 1 graph
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Safeway
  • 2. The New Suffragists
  • 3. The Silence of the Lions
  • 4. Checks and Imbalances
  • 5. The People’s Lobbyists versus Private Equity
  • 6. The New Sheriffs of Wall Street
  • 7. The Law of Fiduciary Duty and the Risk of Capture
  • 8. The Retirement “Crises” and the Future of Labor’s Capital
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index