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Isabelle Ferreras

A sociologist (Louvain) and political scientist (M.I.T.) by training, Isabelle Ferreras is a professor at the University de Louvain, a tenured fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation (FNRS, Brussels), and a senior research associate of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. Her last book is Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism (Cambridge University Press, December 2017, Paperback March 2018). Learn more at her website.

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Response: Shareholders Versus Stakeholders

Lumping workers in with other stakeholders obscures reality.
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Response: Ferreras responds to Pope

“In order to win workers’ rights,” Pope, Bruno, and Kellman argue, “organized labor should act like a rights movement. History tells us that rights movements—from abolition to women’s suffrage to civil rights—succeed...
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Response: Beyond Opportunity

I agree with Jody Heymann’s description of the present state of U.S. social policy, in particular its treatment of working-class and poor parents and their children—treatment that becomes increasingly disgraceful as one...
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