Cover

Western capitalism in transition

Contents

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Framing the issues at stake

1 Western capitalism in transition: global processes, local challenges: Alberta Andreotti, David Benassi and Yuri Kazepov

2 A child of its times: the ‘new urban sociology’ in context and its legacy: Michael Harloe

Part I: The transformations of global capitalism

3 Abstract from the concrete: capitalism spiralling out of control: David Harvey

4 Rethinking social reproduction in an era of the dominance of finance capital: Gavin Smith

5 On the social (dis-)embedding of the economy in a local context: where anthropology and sociology share metaphors as analytical tools: Simone Ghezzi

Part II: Welfare capitalism and rights

6 The underclass and international comparison, variety and universalism: Jean-Claude Barbier

7 Welfare migration and civic stratification: Britain’s emergent rights regime: Lydia Morris

8 The Mediterranean welfare states between recalibration and change in the cultural paradigm: Nicola Negri and Chiara Saraceno

Part III: Citizenship and migration

9 Deconstructing labour demand: implications for low-wage employment: Saskia Sassen

10 International migrations and the Mediterranean: Enrico Pugliese

11 Cities under economic austerity: the return of citizenship claims: Marisol García

Part IV: Cities and urban transformation

12 The sense of touch: Richard Sennett

13 Urban disorder and the transformation of global governance: Sophie Body-Gendrot

14 Urban political economy beyond convergence: robust but differentiated unequal European cities: Patrick Le Galès

Part V: Segregation and the spatial dimension of poverty

15 The spatial dimension of poverty: Norman Fainstein and Susan S. Fainstein

16 Urban segregation, inequalities and local welfare: the challenges of neoliberalisation: Marco Oberti and Edmond Préteceille

17 Urban poverty and social cohesion: lessons from Naples: Enrica Morlicchio

Perspectives on the future of Western capitalism

18 The double movement and the perspectives of contemporary capitalism: Enzo Mingione

Index