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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (310 p.) : 1 graphContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674919464
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.25/240973 23
LOC classification:
  • HD7105.35.U6 .W43 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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’ Retirement System, a $300 billion pension fund, workers led a shareholder revolt that unseated three of Burd’s boardroom allies. In The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon, David Webber uses cases such as Safeway’s to shine a light on labor’s most potent remaining weapon: its multitrillion-dollar pension funds. Outmaneuvered at the bargaining table and under constant assault in Washington, state houses, and the courts, worker organizations are beginning to exercise muscle through markets. Shareholder activism has been used to divest from anti-labor companies, gun makers, and tobacco; diversify corporate boards; support Occupy Wall Street; force global warming onto the corporate agenda; create jobs; and challenge outlandish CEO pay. Webber argues that workers have found in labor’s capital a potent strategy against their exploiters. He explains the tactic’s surmountable difficulties even as he cautions that corporate interests are already working to deny labor’s access to this powerful and underused tool. The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder is a rare good-news story for American workers, an opportunity hiding in plain sight. Combining legal rigor with inspiring narratives of labor victory, Webber shows how workers can wield their own capital to reclaim their strength.
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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

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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’ Retirement System, a $300 billion pension fund, workers led a shareholder revolt that unseated three of Burd’s boardroom allies. In The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon, David Webber uses cases such as Safeway’s to shine a light on labor’s most potent remaining weapon: its multitrillion-dollar pension funds. Outmaneuvered at the bargaining table and under constant assault in Washington, state houses, and the courts, worker organizations are beginning to exercise muscle through markets. Shareholder activism has been used to divest from anti-labor companies, gun makers, and tobacco; diversify corporate boards; support Occupy Wall Street; force global warming onto the corporate agenda; create jobs; and challenge outlandish CEO pay. Webber argues that workers have found in labor’s capital a potent strategy against their exploiters. He explains the tactic’s surmountable difficulties even as he cautions that corporate interests are already working to deny labor’s access to this powerful and underused tool. The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder is a rare good-news story for American workers, an opportunity hiding in plain sight. Combining legal rigor with inspiring narratives of labor victory, Webber shows how workers can wield their own capital to reclaim their strength.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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