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Confronting finance : mobilizing the 99 per cent for economic and social progress /

The unfolding economic crisis has unequivocally proved that neoliberal policies were no better for growth than for social progress. As poverty and inequality are rising to alarming levels in Europe, the old continent seems at a loss to respond. Political leaders seem content to liquidate the social...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Labour Office
Otros Autores: Pons-Vignon, Nicolas, Ncube, Phumzile
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Geneva : ILO, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The crisis: the response of European trade unions / Bernadette Ségol
  • The euro crisis and the European trade union movement / Vasco Pedrina
  • The EU "austerity" deal won't work: Irish workers face a grim future / Frank Connolly
  • Summer days on Utoya / Dan Gallin
  • European integration at the crossroads: deepening or disintegration? / Elmar Altvater and Birgit Mahnkopf
  • Is the Eurozone doomed to fail? / Jacques Sapir
  • How capital flight drains Africa: stolen money and lost lives / James K. Boyce and Léonce Ndikumana
  • The microfinance delusion: optimistic beginnings / Milford Bateman
  • The true cost of doing business / Conor Cradden
  • The costs of the financial crisis 2008-09: governments are paying the tab / Sebastian Dullien
  • The march to protect worker rights and the middle class / Cathy Feingold
  • Supporting dissent versus being dissent / Steven Toff and Jamie McCallum
  • Decent work 2.0 / Frank Hoffer
  • Working for a social protection floor / Andreas Bodemer and Ellen Ehmke
  • Where is trade union reform and labour legislation in China heading? An interview with two labour and trade union activitists / Elaine Sio-ieng Hui
  • Global labour online campaigns: the next ten years / Eric Lee
  • Seven reasons why a universal income makes sense in middle-income countries / Hein Marais
  • Economic democracy: an idea whose time had come, again? / Richar Hyman
  • A tide of inequality: what can taxes and transfer achieve? / Malte Luebker
  • Taxing finance / Toby Sanger
  • A plan B for the world economy / Christian Kellermann
  • The dilemma of job creation and decent work / Edward Webster.