The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System

A Worker-based Model for Community Investment

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The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System

A Worker-based Model for Community Investment

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The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System: A Worker-based Model for Community Investment articulates a new model for economic security based upon steelworkers’ pension provisions and labor politics after World War II. Labor’s collective bargaining agreements created interdependent commitments that sustained jobs and stabilized communities. The evidence in The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System includes an empirical analysis of United States steel towns and case studies of Weirton, West Virginia, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania. By understanding the politics that bound firms and workers together and adapting these commitments to the post-industrial economy, The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System offers a new means by which communities can provide workers security and economic growth. This new model, the Guaranteed Pension and Community Investment plan, provide workers with lifetime retirement annuities and communities with reliable investment capital.

Table of Contents

IntroductionThe Steelworkers’ ModelThe Employee Purchase of Weirton SteelResurgence & Sustenance in Bethlehem & JohnstownA Worker-based Model for Retirement SecurityA Worker-based Model for Community InvestmentConnecting to the Public Sector: “Ford to City: Drop Dead”Politics from the Ground UpSelected Bibliography

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Published May 12 2016
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 160
ISBN 9781611461886
Imprint Lehigh University Press
Illustrations 2 Graphs, 14 Tables
Dimensions 239 x 164 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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