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03263aam a2200385 a 4500 001 C3298C6A6B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 131119s2014 enk b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2013955757 020 $a 0199653585 020 $a 9780199653584 035 $a (OCoLC)856981081 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d DLC $d BDX $d YDXCP $d UKMGB $d LTSCA $d UBC $d CHVBK $d DEBBG $d PMC $d CUI $d XII $d AU@ $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d IEDUB $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a HG4530 F524 2014 245 00 $a Financialization, new investment funds, and labour : $b an international comparison / $c edited by Howard Gospel, Andrew Pendleton and Sigurt Vitols. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2014. 300 $a xxii, 380 pages ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Financialization, new investment funds, and labour / Howard Gospel and Andrew Pendleton -- Financial intermediaries in the United States : development and impact on firms and employment relations / Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt, and Jae Eun Lee -- Financialization, new investment funds, and weakened labour : the case of the UK / Andrew Pendleton and Howard Gospel -- Ambivalent finance and protected labour : alternative investments and labour management in Australia / Mark Westcott and John Murray -- Financialization and ownership change : challenges for the German model of labour relations / Jakob Haves, Sigurt Vitols, and Peter Wilke -- Contested financialization? New investment funds in the Netherlands / Ewald Engelen -- A capital-labour accord on financialization? The growth and impact of new investment funds in Sweden / Tomas Korpi -- An 'Italian way to private equity'? The rhetoric and the reality / Bruno Cattero -- Private equity and labour in a transition economy : the case of Poland / Stefan Dunin-Wâ¯sowicz and Perceval Pradelle -- Japan : limits to investment fund activity / Katsuyuki Kubo -- New investment funds and labour impacts : implications for theories of corporate financialization and comparative capitalism / Sigurt Vitols. 520 8 $a The text examines the activities of often highly controversial investment funds, namely private equity, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds, in US, UK Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Poland, and Japan, exploring the importance of these funds and considering the evidence relating to their effects on work and employment. 650 0 $a Mutual funds $x Social aspects $v Cross-cultural studies. 650 0 $a Corporations $x Social aspects $x Social aspects $v Cross-cultural studies. 700 1 $a Gospel, Howard F. 700 1 $a Pendleton, Andrew, $d 1957- 700 1 $a Vitols, Sigurt. 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1503/2013955757-b.html 856 41 $3 Table of contents only $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1503/2013955757-t.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1503/2013955757-d.html 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826101215.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C3298C6A6B5511E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search