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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.

Pension trusts --- Working class --- Stockholders --- Investments --- Economic conditions --- Political activity --- CEO-worker pay ratios. --- Corporate governance. --- Defined-benefit pension plans. --- Defined-contribution pension plans. --- Dodd-Frank. --- Hedge funds. --- Pension funds. --- Private equity funds. --- Proxy access. --- Public pension funds. --- Public sector employees. --- Unions. --- shareholder activism.

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"The Chinese economy is now easily one of the most important and closely scrutinized economies in the world. Relatively minuscule changes in predictions of how the Chinese economy will perform can drive up or down stocks and the price of oil and other commodities. At the heart of how the Chinese economy works is its financial system-but the Chinese financial system is vastly different than most people in the West can understand. How do house prices work, for example, in a country where the very concept of property ownership is significantly different than our own? This edited volume will serve as a standard reference guide to China's financial system. With eighteen chapters, the handbook features overviews on the banking sector-the core of China's financial system and the key channel for implementing China's monetary policy-China's ongoing reforms, and the quickly growing bond and money markets, among other topics. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in the field, and as a whole the list of contributors represents an impressive mix of leading scholars and high-level policy officials, some with first-hand knowledge of setting and carrying out Chinese financial policy. The handbook will serve as the first real authoritative volume of literature in the field, and will shed extensive new light on the links between China's financial system and the real economy"--

Finance --- China --- Economic policy --- A-shares. --- British pound. --- C schemes. --- Chinese investment funds. --- Chinese mutual funds. --- Chinese rating agency. --- Euro. --- FDI. --- Fintech cities. --- IFRS. --- IMF. --- IPO reform. --- Japanese yen. --- LGFV. --- McCallum rule. --- PBC policy rates. --- Q schemes. --- QFII. --- RMB cross-border flows. --- RMB internationalization. --- RMB lending. --- RQFII, QDII. --- SOEs. --- Shanghai stock exchange. --- Shenzhen stock exchange. --- Taylor rule. --- US dollar. --- VC. --- accounting system. --- asset management. --- banking institutions. --- banking regulations. --- banking. --- basic social security. --- benchmark rates. --- bond connect. --- bond credit ratings. --- bond markets. --- capital account liberalization. --- central bank independence. --- corporate governance. --- credit extension. --- credit market rates. --- domestic assets. --- employer-sponsored annuity programs. --- equity markets. --- familiarity. --- fintech development. --- fintech regulatory developments. --- fintech. --- foreign direct investment. --- foreign exchange. --- hedge funds. --- infrastructure financing. --- interbank markets. --- interest rate liberalization. --- interest rates. --- internet usage. --- investor behavior. --- investor behavioral biases. --- limited attention. --- liquidity facility rates. --- local government financing vehicles. --- loss aversion. --- macroprudential policies. --- market economy. --- microprudential supervision initiatives. --- monetary policy instruments. --- monetary policy. --- money markets. --- mutual fund industry. --- mutual funds. --- online shopping. --- overconfidence. --- pension system. --- pensions. --- price-based policy instruments. --- private equity funds. --- public pension scheme. --- quantity-based policy instruments. --- real state market. --- representativeness bias. --- shadow banking. --- shareholder activism. --- state-owned commercial banks. --- stock connect. --- stock market regulations. --- stock market. --- venture capital funds. --- venture capital market.