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Pensions at Work

Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds

By: Jack Quarter,Isla Carmichael,Sherida Ryan

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Pensions at Work

Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds

By: Jack Quarter,Isla Carmichael,Sherida Ryan

Pension 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. Pensions at Work 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. 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.

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Businesses with a Difference

Balancing the Social and the Economic

By: Laurie Mook,Jack Quarter,Sherida Ryan

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Businesses with a Difference

Balancing the Social and the Economic

By: Laurie Mook,Jack Quarter,Sherida Ryan

Market-based social economy firms such as social enterprises, social purpose businesses, co-operatives, credit unions, and community economic development corporations aim to meet distinct social needs while making money. Do these types of businesses have the potential for growth in the modern economy? Are they destined to function only in areas where conventional firms cannot achieve a sufficient rate of return? Or will the role of social economy organizations change as businesses begin placing more emphasis on corporate social responsibility? Building on the popular 2010 collection Researching the Social Economy, Businesses with a Difference explores the challenges and opportunities faced by firms that seek a genuine balance between their social and economic objectives. Through international case studies, including comparative analyses, this innovative collection highlights the unique issues that must be addressed when associations are accountable not to investors and shareholders, but instead to ordinary people.

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Pensions at Work

Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds

By: Jack Quarter,Isla Carmichael,Sherida Ryan

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Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds

By: Jack Quarter,Isla Carmichael,Sherida Ryan

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Businesses with a Difference

Balancing the Social and the Economic

By: Laurie Mook,Jack Quarter,Sherida Ryan

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Businesses with a Difference

Balancing the Social and the Economic

By: Laurie Mook,Jack Quarter,Sherida Ryan

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Pensions at Work

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