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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 2 b/w illus. 5 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Labor, Finance, and the Corporation, 1890–1980
  • 2 The CalPERS Era
  • 3 Labor’s Shares
  • 4 Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges
  • 5 From Exuberance to Enron
  • 6 Executive Pay
  • 7 Shareholder Democracy
  • 8 Organizing Finance
  • 9 The Financial Crisis and Dodd-Frank
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index