Table of Contents for "There is an alternative. Economic policies and labour strategies beyond the mainstream"

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Bringing politics back in

Nicolas Pons-Vignon

PART I A luta continua: Global trade union struggles

Maturing contradictions: The 2010 public sector strike in South Africa

Claire Ceruti

The struggle against pension reform in France

Philippe Légé

Fiat is at war, says Sergio Marchionne

Francesco Garibaldo

Trade unions and worker struggles in Guangdong

Chen Weiguang interviewed by Boy Lüthe

Domestic workers in Switzerland protected by the country’s first sectoral employment contract

Vania Alleva and Mauro Moretto

PART II Rethinking European economic governance

Beware the Canadian austerity model

Andrew Jackson

Why the Stability and Growth Pact does not work

Till van Treeck

European economic governance: The next big hold-up on wages

Ronald Janssen

Change or lose Europe

Frank Hoffer and Friederike Spiecker

PART III Development policies: Time to do away with the neoliberal dogma

Trade, employment and development: Back on track?

Richard Kozul-Wright

Trade, labour and the crisis: Time to rethink trade!

Esther Busser

Reform options for financial systems

Hansjörg Herr and Rainer Stachuletz

What does wage-led growth mean in developing countries with large informal employment?

Jayati Ghosh

More pay and more jobs: How Brazil got both

Paulo Eduardo de Andrade Baltar

PART IV Inequality at the root of the crisis

Time for a new paradigm

Sharan Burrow

A crisis of distribution, not a fiscal crisis

Özlem Onaran

Social forces drive financial insecurity

Seeraj Mohamed

Paying for inequality: The costs of NAIRU-based macroeconomics

C.W.M. Naastepad and Servaas Storm

Private equity investments and labour: Current trends and challenges

for trade unions

Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi and José Ricardo Barbosa Gonçalves

PART V Workers’ rights and wage-led recovery: The basis for sustainable growth

Working for decent work for all everywhere

Juan Somavia

International labour standards: An old instrument revisited

Frank Hoffer

Precarious work makes for a precarious recovery

Ronald Janssen

Global wage trends: The great convergence?

Patrick Belser

Reversing a history of exclusion through international labour law

Claire Hobden

Talking about an energy and jobs revolution

Kumi Naidoo