Michael A. McCarthy

Michael A. McCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Marquette University. His research interests are in political sociology, political economy, labor, and finance. He is the author of Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal (Cornell University Press, 2017) and is currently working on a second book on the politics of democratizing finance.
LPE Originals

Is Labor’s Future in Labor’s Capital? A Debate, Part III

This is Part III of a conversation between David H. Webber and Michael McCarthy on the prospect of combating neoliberal corporate governance through the shareholder activities of workers’ pension funds. Workers’ retirement savings make up a substantial share of the capital invested in the public stock market and the private equity market. If shareholder primacy is…
LPE Originals

Is Labor’s Future in Labor’s Capital? A Debate: Part II

This is Part II of a conversation between David H. Webber and Michael McCarthy on the prospect of combating neoliberal corporate governance through the shareholder activities of workers’ pension funds. Workers’ retirement savings make up a substantial share of the capital invested in the public stock market and the private equity market. If shareholder primacy…
LPE Originals

Is Labor’s Future in Labor’s Capital? A Debate

This is Part I of a conversation between David H. Webber and Michael McCarthy on the prospect of combating neoliberal corporate governance through the shareholder activities of workers’ pension funds. Workers’ retirement savings make up a substantial share of the capital invested in the public stock market and the private equity market. If shareholder primacy…