Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
AB Bookman's Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Rambles Round Eton and Harrow
Author: Alfred RimmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eton (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Jeff Koons Handbook
Author: Jeff KoonsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780947564469
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder
Author: David WebberPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674972139
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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.
Rohault's System of Natural Philosophy
Author: Jacques RohaultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship
Author: A Code of Gentoo Laws Or, Ordinations of the Pundits
Author: Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Antiquarian Book Monthly Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
On Civilization, Power, and Knowledge
Author: Norbert EliasPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226204324
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Norbert Elias has been described as among the great sociologists of the 20th century. A collection of his most important writings, this book sets out Elias' thinking during the course of his long career, with a discussion of how his work relates to that of other sociologists.