Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction:Bringing politics back in -- PART I A luta continua: Global trade union struggles -- Maturing contradictions: The 2010 public sector strike in South Africa -- The struggle against pension reform in France -- Fiat is at war, says Sergio Marchionne -- Trade unions and worker struggles in Guangdong -- Domestic workers in Switzerland protected by the country's first sectoral employment contract -- PART II Rethinking European economic governance -- Beware the Canadian austerity model -- Why the Stability and Growth Pact does not work -- European economic governance: The next bighold-up on wages -- Change or lose Europe -- PART III Development policies: Time to do away with the neoliberal dogma -- Trade, employment and development:Back on track? -- Trade, labour and the crisis: Time to rethink trade! -- Reform options for financial systems -- What does wage-led growth mean in developing countries with large informal employment? -- More pay and more jobs: How Brazil got both -- PART IV Inequality at the root of the crisis -- Time for a new paradigm -- A crisis of distribution, not a fiscal crisis -- Social forces drive financial insecurity -- Paying for inequality: The costs of NAIRU-based macroeconomics -- Private equity investments and labour: Current trends and challenges for trade unions -- PART V Workers' rights and wage-led recovery: The basis for sustainable growth -- Working for decent work for all everywhere -- International labour standards: An old instrument revisited -- Precarious work makes for a precarious recovery -- Global wage trends: The great convergence? -- Reversing a history of exclusion through international labour law -- Talking about an energy and jobs revolution.