Readers meet Author: The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon by Prof. David Webber
The Minerva Center for Human Rights, the Fischer Center for Corporate and Capital Markrts Regulation and the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law
In his recent book, published with Harvard University Press, Prof. David Webber analyzes "shareholder activism" - worker organizations' use of their multitrillion-dollar pension funds as a bargaining chip. 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.
A limited number of copies of the book will be available for sale at the event, for a reduced price of NIS100. Pre-orders can be made here, to be picked up at the event.
Invitation can be found here.
