Combating Inequality: The Global North and South

✍ Scribed by Alexander Gallas; Hansjörg Herr; Frank Hoffer; Christoph Scherrer

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 339
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
1 Introduction
PART I The challenge of inequality
2 The rise of inequality across the globe: drivers, impacts and policies for change
3 Gender inequality and the labour movement
4 Trade unions and the challenge of economic inequality: an unresolved debate
PART II Drivers of inequality
5 Labour and fi nancial markets as drivers of inequality
6 The impact of the fi nancial sector on inequality: a comparison of the USA, Brazil, Germany and India
7 Multinational corporations and economic inequality in the Global South: causes, consequences and countermeasures in the Bangladeshi and Honduran apparel sector
PART III Country case studies
8 The US economy: explaining stagnation and why it will persist
9 Financialisation, redistribution and ‘export-led mercantilism’: the case of Germany
10 Macroeconomic processes and economic inequalities in India
11 Brazil in the last 20 years: searching for a new accumulation regime
PART IV Critiques of conventional political responses
12 Greening inequality? Limitations of the ‘green growth’ agenda
13 The social investment state and the myth of meritocracy
14 New trends in inequality: the fi nancialisation of social policies
PART V Merits and limits of alternative political responses
15 Market regulation, inequality and economic development
16 The role of the public sector in combating inequality
17 Progressive tax reform in the OECD countries: opportunities and obstacles
PART VI Tools for counter-strategies
18 Contextualising strategies for more equality
19 (Un)typical labour struggles: creative campaigns to challenge inequality
20 Countermeasures against inequality
Index

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