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Labor in the age of finance : pensions, politics, and corporations from deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank / Sanford M. Jacoby.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacoby, Sanford M., 1953- author.
- Series:
- Princeton scholarship online.
- Princeton scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor movement--United States--History--20th century.
- Labor movement.
- Labor movement--United States--History--21st century.
- Labor unions--United States--History--20th century.
- Labor unions.
- Labor unions--United States--History--21st century.
- Corporate governance--United States--History--20th century.
- Corporate governance.
- Corporate governance--United States--History--21st century.
- Financialization--United States--History--20th century.
- Financialization.
- Financialization--United States--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 354 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Since 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691217215
- 0691217211
- OCLC:
- 1247664192
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