{"product_id":"pensions-at-work-jack-quarter-9781487524937","title":"Pensions at Work: Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds","description":"\u003cp\u003ePension funds have come to play an increasingly important role within the new economy. According to Statistics Canada, in 2006, trusteed pension funds in Canada had $836 billion of assets and represented the savings of 4.6 million Canadian workers. \u003cem\u003ePensions at Work\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique collection of papers that uses a labour perspective to deal with the socially responsible investment of pension funds. Featuring leading Canadian and international scholars, it builds on existing scholarship on socially responsible investment and on the growing interest of the Canadian labour movement in joint trusteeship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What is unique about this collection is that it synthesizes three distinct themes - socially responsible investment, pension funds, and labour studies. The contributors address an array of critical issues such as gaps in the education of union trustees of pension funds, the impact of human capital criteria on shareholder returns, the influence of corporate engagement upon corporate performance, and the nature of public-private partnerships (PPPs). Although the essays in Pensions at Work all address the nexus between socially responsible investment, pension funds, and unions, each looks at a particular manifestation of that relationship through a different disciplinary lens. This collection moves the discussion to pension funds in which union representatives are also trustees, a relatively new approach that will be of great interest to institutional investors, the labour movement, and instructors in labour studies programs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jack Quarter, Isla Carmichael, Sherida Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487524935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487524937\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d","brand":"Jack Quarter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44410698563839,"sku":"9781487524937","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_285ab417-6d0b-49a2-a7ce-4442c4d10dbe.jpg?v=1697537363","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pensions-at-work-jack-quarter-9781487524937","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}