A "scholar-activist", Ginsburg was an early proponent of the living wage and a founding member of the National Committee for Full Employment, co-chaired by Coretta Scott King.

[5] In 1975, she authored two titles in a series of research reports, published as pamphlets from the Center for Studies of Income Maintenance Policy at New York University.

[1] With Sheila D. Collins and Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Ginsburg co-authored Jobs for All: A Plan for the Revitalization of America, a 1994 manifesto for full employment.

[8][9] One reviewer called it a "path-breaking blueprint for dealing with perhaps the most important resurgent question of the late 20th century: Can triumphant capitalism provide employment for all who seek it?

"[10] Organized around 11 principles, Jobs for All laid out a program of job creation; increased minimum wage; workplace changes to be more compatible with family life and women's economic achievement; employment opportunity for disadvantaged groups; expanded civil rights and rights in the workplace; investment in public infrastructure; strengthening public finance; corporate accountability, and environmental protection.

[1] The group advocated the position that everyone capable of working a job had a right to one[1] and pushed back against federal economists whose policy priorities centered on the success of white men to the exclusion of others.