LABOR CAPITAL STRATEGIES
Union Investment Funds
Unions Growing Investment Funds
The Challenge of Labor’s Capital Strategy
Popular Reviews of Working Capital
Contributor Quotes to "Working Capital"
American Successes Growing
Industrial Heartland Investment Forum
Industrial Heartland
Table of Contents Research Papers
Introduction
The U.S. Wage Gap and the Decline of Manufacturing
The Role of Middle Market Companies in Job Growth:
Labour-Sponsored Investment Funds in Canada
The Regional Labor Investment Fund:
Investment Practices of the Pension Fund Industry
Mismanaging Money



Table of Contents Research Papers

Labor Investment Forum
Research Papers
Editor: Regina Markey

1. Introduction

2.
The U.S. Wage Gap and the Decline of Manufacturing
   
Dean Baker, Economic Policy Institute

3. America's Restructured Financial System: The Role of Workers' Savings and Impediments to Long-Term Investing in Jobs
   Tom Schlesinger, Southern Finance Project
   Regina Markey, AFL-CIO Public Employee Department


4. Workers' Pension Funds and the Low-Road to Profitability: The Downsizing Dilemma
    Regina Markey, AFL-CIO Public Employee Department

5. U.S. Private Placement Debt Markets in the 1990s
   Tessa Hebb, Harvard University

6. The Role of Middle Market Companies in Job Growth: Targeting Investment and Technology to the Critical Middle--The Steel Valley Experience

   Joe Bute, Steel Valley Authority

7. Labor-Sponsored Investment Funds in Canada
   Sherman Kreiner, The Crocus Fund, Canada
   with Kenneth Delaney, First Ontario Fund, Canada


8. Review of Studies Assessing the Impact of Labor-Sponsored Investment Funds in Canada
   A. Melissa Moye, Work and Technology Institute

9. The Regional Labor Investment Fund: A Critical Nexus for a National Investment Strategy
   Thomas Croft and Joe Bute, Steel Valley Authority
   Richard Feldman, Worker Center, King County Labor Council, AFL-CIO


10. Conclusions and Recommendations