Private equity and American labor: Multiple, pragmatic responses mirroring labor's strengths and weaknesses

Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 543-556

  Beeferman, Larry W ^a  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital stewardship; Capital strategy; Collective bargaining; Investment; Labor; Pension fund; Private equity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449589984     PISSN: 00221856     EISSN: 14729296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022185609339518     Document Type: Article

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