Combating Inequality: The Global North and South

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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
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