Pensions at Work - 9781487524937

Pensions at WorkSocially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds\nAuthor(s): Jack Quarter, Isla Carmichael, Sherida Ryan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487524937, 978-1487524937\nSynopsis\nPension 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 [url] 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.\n\nWhat is unique about this collection is that it synthesizes three distinct themes - socially responsi.