MEDIATING GENTRIFICATION: HOW ONE COMMUNITY CREATED UNITY OUT OF DIVISIVENESS
18 Feb 2015

MEDIATING GENTRIFICATION: HOW ONE COMMUNITY CREATED UNITY OUT OF DIVISIVENESS

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It is possible for communities to come together in respect for the needs of all residents, both old and new. It is possible for people to grow and for community life to benefit from honest contention that is respectfully shared.

Beth Roy will talk about an example of such an approach when she mediated an intense dispute in a San Francisco neighborhood. Drawing on her mediation there, she extracts directions for re-thinking facets of the work with a social justice perspective.

WHEN WALL STREET MANAGES MAIN STREET: SHINING LIGHT ON THE SHADOW BANKING SYSTEM with Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt
19 Sep 2014

WHEN WALL STREET MANAGES MAIN STREET: SHINING LIGHT ON THE SHADOW BANKING SYSTEM with Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt

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In Private Equity at Work, a groundbreaking analysis of a hotly contested business model, Economist Eileen Appelbaum and Professor Rosemary Batt show that Private Equity firms’ financial strategies are designed to extract maximum value from the companies they buy and sell, often to the detriment of those companies and their employees and suppliers. These actions often lead to financial distress and a disproportionate focus on cost-cutting, outsourcing, and wage and benefit losses for workers, especially if they are unionized.