Front cover -- Inside front cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright information -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Beyond neoliberalism? -- PART I Public Investment and wages: Leading recovery -- Frank Hoffer / Don't waste the crisis: The case for sustained public investment and wage-led recovery policies -- John Evans / Creating jobs now and changing the exconomic growth model for the future -- Andrew Jackson / Beyond "stimulus": Fiscal policy after the Great Recession -- Engelbert Stockhammer / Profits, banks and the state: How to get investment going again -- Patrick Belser / Why we should care about wages -- Heiner Flassbeck / Putting employment security first will diminish demand: A warning from Germany -- PART II The need to reform global finance -- Christoph Scherrer / Finance capital will not fade away on its own -- Pierre Habbard / Taxing financial transactions: The right thing to do when you owe 600 billion a year and have lost control over global finance -- Raymond Torres / Global Finance Crisis 2.0 -- Ekkehard Ernst / The end of an era: What comes after financialization and what will be the consequences for labour? -- PART III The economic crisis and challenges to national policies -- Neva Seidman Makgetla / The international economic crisis and development strategy: A view from South Africa -- Alessandra Mezzadri / The global footlaoose proletariat and the financial crisi: Reflections on the contradictions of export-oriented industrialization in India -- Ronald Janssen / Greece-bashing is hiding the obvious: Monetary union urgently needs economic union -- Robert Kyloh / Riding your luck and adopting the right policies: Why the Australian economy has rebounded strongly -- PART IV Can the economic crisis lead to a redefinition of labour strategies?.

Gregory Albo / Unions and the crisis: Ways ahead? -- Cédric Durand / New challenges for labour as growth prospects fade away -- Andrew Watt / Making its voice heard: A role for the labour movement in policies for recovery -- Renana Jhabvala / Financial crises, the informal economy and workers' unions -- Martin Upchurch / The crisis of social democratic trade unionism in Western Europe -- Inside back cover -- Back cover.