The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism (LERA Research Volume) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0913447145 ISBN 13: 9780913447147

Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association, 2018

Synopsis

It is often hoped and assumed that union stewardship of pension investments will produce tangible and enduring benefits for workers and their communities while minimizing the negative effects of what are now global and intensely competitive capital markets. At the core of this book is a desire to question the proposition that workers and their organizations can exert meaningful control over pension funds in the context of current financial markets.

The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism is an engaging and readable text that will be of specific interest to members of the labor movement, pension activists, pension trustees, fund administrators, environmental activists, and employers/managers, as well as academics involved in pension or labor research. The contents and arguments of the book are applicable across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland, because these countries experience a similar macroeconomic context and face a similar pension landscape.

About this title

About the Author

Kevin Skerrett is a Senior Research Officer (Pensions) with the Canadian Union of Public Employees in Ottawa. Chris Roberts is the National Director of Social and Economic Policy at the Canadian Labour Congress in Ottawa. He is the author of Pension Confidential. Johanna Weststar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Organizational Studies at Western University in London, Ontario. Simon Archer is co-director of the Centre for Research in Comparative Law and Political Economy at Osgoode Hall Law School and practices law with Goldblatt Partners LLP.

Review

"From a broad and critical political economic framework to a nuanced look at the practice of pension fund management, readers will find this collection to be both accessible and insightful. Indeed, the esoteric and perhaps even nebulous nature of pension funds is wonderfully exposed in this book."

(Labour)

About this edition

• Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0913447145
• ISBN 13: 9780913447147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Skerrett Kevin, Weststar Johanna, Archer Simon, Roberts Chris