Download or read book Financialization, New Investment Funds, and Labour written by Howard Gospel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the activities of often highly controversial investment funds, namely private equity, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds, in US, UK Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Poland, and Japan, exploring the importance of these funds and considering the evidence relating to their effects on work and employment.