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-W♯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.
Summary:
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.
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