Introduction : the challenge of labor's capital strategy / Tessa Hebb -- Collateral damage : do pension fund investments hurt workers? / Dean Baker and Archon Fung -- Social funds in the United States : their history, financial performance and social impacts / Eric Becker and Patrick McVeigh --...

Pension fund capitalism is a new, albeit evolving, stage of Anglo-American capital market development. It is marked by the ability of pension funds to aggregate the widely disbursed ownership of beneficiaries and therefore act as single entities with a unified voice. Pension funds within their...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Understanding Pension Fund Corporate Engagement -- Intersecting Interests -- The Economic Inefficiency of Secrecy -- Why Do They Care? -- Global Standards and Emerging Markets -- The Way Forward -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Glossary of Terms -- Notes...