Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Nicolas Pons-Vignon and Mbuso Nkosi -- Section 1: Understanding the Crisis -- 1. Planet Earth is Wage-led! A Simultaneous Increase in the Profit Share by 1 Per Cent-point in the Major Developed and Developing Countries Leads to a 0.36 Per Cent Decline in Global GDP - Özlem Onaran -- 2. From Financial Crisis to Stagnation: The Destruction of Shared Prosperity and the Role of Economics - Thomas I. Palley -- 3. State Funding of Research and the Narrowing of Economics in the United Kingdom - Frederic Sterling Lee -- 4. Globalisation and Taxation: Trends and Consequences - Ilan Strauss -- 5. T-shirt Economics: Labour in the Imperialist World Economy - Tony Norfield -- Section 2: Europe in Turmoil -- 6. Greece in the Deadlock of the Troika's Austerity Trap - Giorgos Argitis -- 7. The ECB's Misleading Understanding of the Euro Crisis - Carlo D'Ippoliti -- 8. Europe's Lost Decade: Paths out of Stagnation - Hansjorg Herr -- 9. The Crisis, Structural Reform and the Fortification of Neoliberalism in Europe - Christoph Hermann -- 10. The Economic Crisis and Job Quality in Europe: Some Worrying Trends and Worse May be to Come - Janine Leschke and Andrew Watt -- Section 3: Exploring Alternatives -- 11. Tackling Unemployment and Growing Public Debt - Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury -- 12. Tax for Equity (T4E): Getting Wages Back on Track - Frank Hoffer -- 13. The State as the Employer of Last Resort - Cédric Durand and Dany Lang -- 14. 'We are Steaming Ahead': NUMSA's Road to the Left - An Interview with Karl Cloete -- 15. Alternatives to Neoliberalism: Towards a New Progressive Consensus - João Antônio Felício -- Section 4: Resisting Exploitation and Neoliberalism -- 16. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Outcome? - Carol Jess -- 17. Right to Work and Michigan Labour - Roland Zullo.

18. A Site of Struggle: Organised Labour and Domestic Worker Organising in Mozambique - Ruth Castel-Branco -- 19. Constructing an anti-Neoliberal Analysis to Arrive at Truly Alternative Alternatives - Salimah Valiani -- 20. The 2012 Strike Wave, Marikana and the History of Rock Drillers in South African Mines - Paul Stewart -- Section 5: Good Samaritans? Institutional Responses to Labour Right Abuses -- 21. Where is Decent Work in DfID Policy? Marketisation and Securitisation of UK International Aid - Phoebe V. Moore -- 22. The National Pact to Eradicate Slave Labour in Brazil: A Useful Tool for Unions? - Lisa Carstensen and Siobhán McGrath -- 23. Better Work or 'Ethical Fix'? Lessons from Cambodia's Apparel Industry - Dennis Arnold -- 24. Putting Workers' Agency at the Centre in the Indonesian Sportswear Industry - Karin A. Siegmann, Jeroen Merk and Peter Knorringa -- 25. Rana Plaza: Private Governance and Corporate Power in Global Supply Chains - Tandiwe Gross -- Section 6: 'Workers of the World, Unite': Challenges and Opportunities of Transnational Solidarity -- 26. Rank and File Participation and International Union Democracy - Vasco Pedrina -- 27. Trade Unions, Free Trade and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity - Andreas Bieler -- 28. Modelling a Global Union Strategy: The Arena of Global Production Networks, Global Framework Agreements and Trade Union Networks - Michael Fichter -- 29. Trade Unions, Globalisation and Internationalism - Ronaldo Munck -- 30. Chinese Construction Companies in Africa: A Challenge for Trade Unions - Eddie Cottle -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.