Overview : the global crisis and transformative social change / Peter Utting, Shahra Razavi and Rebecca Varghese Buchholz -- 1. Narratives of crisis and crisis response : perspectives from North and South / Bob Jessop -- 2. The perils of paradigm maintenance in the face of crisis / Andrew Martin Fischer -- 3. Social reproduction in the global crisis: rapid recovery or long-lasting depletion? / Diane Elson -- 4. Shifting global social policy discourse and governance in times of crisis / Bob Deacon -- 5. Financialization and social policy / Ben Fine -- 6. Policy change in turbulent times : the nationalization of private pensions in Argentina / Camila Arza -- 7. Rebounding from crisis : the role and limits of social policy in China's recovery / Sarah Cook -- 8. The global economic crisis and labour markets in the small states of the Caribbean / Andrew S. Downes -- 9. From agrarian crisis to global economic crisis : neoliberalism and the Indian peasantry / Arindam Banerjee -- 10. Restructuring development to address the global financial crisis : lessons from India / Indira Hirway and Seeta Prabhu -- 11. A political economy analysis of crisis response : reflections on India and Thailand / Dev Nathan and Govind Kelkar -- 12. Trade unions and the politics of crisis / Björn Beckman -- 13. Chinese migrant workers in the global financial crisis : government and stakeholder interactions / Ying Yu.

xvi, 289 p. : chart, graphs, tables

Includes chapter endnotes, bibliographical references and index.

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