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