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Resources for educators, researchers, and others who would like to know more about issues discussed in Surviving the Bottom Line with Hedrick Smith Episode One - Running With the Bulls Print Resources:Estes, Ralph.
Tyranny of the Bottom Line; Why Corporations Make Good People Do Bad Things, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1996. Kaysen, Carl ed.
The American Corporation Today; Examining the Questions of Power and Efficiency at the Century’s End, New York: Oxford University Press,1996. . Kuttner, Robert. Everything for Sale; The Virtues and Limits of Markets, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Roe, Mark J. Strong Managers Weak Owners; the Political Roots of American Corporate Finance, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press,
1996.Web Resources: Securities and Exchange Commission
- The SEC’s Edgar database provides on-line access to information on every publicly traded company in the U.S.
<http://www.sec.gov>
AFL-CIO executive compensation list - How much does your CEO make? Paywatch tracks the earnings of America’s top corporate exec’s.
<http://www.paywatch.org>Search recent
PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer stories on business and industry. <http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/business.html>“Betting on the Market” - A Frontline report on America’s obsession with Wall Street and its implications for the country.
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/betting>
Episode 2 - Living on the Fault Line Print Resources:Leigh, Nancey Green. Stemming Middle-Class Decline; The
Challenges to Economic Development Planning, New Brunswick, NJ: The Center for Urban Policy Research, 1994. Mishel, Lawrence and Jared Bernstein and John Schmitt. The State of Working America 1996-97, Washington DC: The Economic Policy Institute, 1996. Mishel, Lawrence and John Schmitt. Beware
the U.S. Model; Jobs and Wages in a Deregulated Economy, Washington, DC: The Economic Policy Institute, 1995. New York Times. The New York
Times Special Report: The Downsizing of America, New York: Times Books (a division of Random House), 1996. Sweeney, John J. America Needs A
Raise; Fighting for Economic Security and Social Justice, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. Web Resources:
U.S. Department of Labor
<http://www.dol.gov>
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Current statistics on employment, wages, benefits, etc.
<http://stats.bls.gov>What’s the current U.S. trade balance with Mexico? The U.S. Census Bureau keeps track of trade between the U.S. and every country in the world -- from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
<http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/javabal.html>A comprehensive list of international trade links.
< http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc/webecf.html#F1>Summaries of many major U.S. employment laws and regulations.
< http://www.lpa.org/lpa/laws.html>“The Economic Case for Corporate Responsibility to Workers.” More on the debate
of shareholders vs. labor.
< http://epinet.org/epib111.html> “Corporations and Human Capital.” A
Brookings Institute project studying the value
corporations put on their employees.
<http://www.brook.edu/es/projects/blair/chcmain.htm
>“Does America Still Work?” The PBS series Frontline
explores the effect of the new economy on the American Dream.
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/america
> Episode 3 - Learning to Survive Print Resources: Olson, Lynn. The School to Work Revolution; How Employers and Educators Are Joining Forces
to Prepare Tomorrow’s Skilled Workforce, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1997. Ross, Heidi A. China Learns English; Language Teaching and Social Change in the People’s Republic, New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 1993. Sarason, Seymour B. How Schools Might Be Governed and Why, New York: Teachers College Press, 1997. Web Resources: U.S. Department of Education.
<http://www.ed.gov>National Education Association.
<http://www.nea.org>EdWeb, an online source for resources and information about trends in education policy.
<http://edweb.gsn.org>National Center for Research in Vocational Education
, a clearinghouse for information on work-related education.
<http://vocserve.berkeley.edu>Search recent
PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer stories on education.
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/
education.html>PBS Teacher Connex, PBS’s on-line resource for
teachers and educators.
<http://www.pbs.org/learn/tconnex> Episode 4 - Beating the Bottom Line Print Resources: Blasi, Joseph Raphael. The New Owners; The Mass Emergence of Employee Ownership
in Public Companies and What It Means to American Business, New York: HarperBusiness, 1991. Bollier, David. Aiming Higher; 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper By Combining Sound Management and Social Vision
, New York: Amacom, 1996. Kaminski, Michelle et. al. Making Change Happen; Six Cases of Unions and Companies Transforming
Their Workplaces, Washington, DC: Work and Technology Institute, 1996. Wilms, Wellford W. Restoring Prosperity; How Workers and Managers are Forging A New Culture of Cooperation. New York: Times
Books (A division of Random House), 1996. Web Resources: The Industrial Heartland Labor Capital Project
, Chaired by United Steelworkers of America Secretary-Treasurer Leo Gerard, is developing labor investment strategies in the U.S. similar to Canada's Solidarity Fund, explored in Surviving the Bottom Line.
<http://www.uswa.org/heartland/title.htm> National Center for Employee Ownership.
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http://www.nceo.org>Links to information on labor policy in the Netherlands.
<http://www.xxlink.nl/exxpo/laborg.htm
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