Jürgen Kocka is Professor Emeritus at the Free University and the Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany, as well as a Permanent Fellow of the Center “Work and Life Course in Global Historical Perspective” at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.Marcel van der Linden is Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Social History, holds a professorship at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and is President of the International Social History Association.

• Introduction (Jürgen Kocka, Social Science Research Center, Germany) 1. Economic and Financial Crises (Youssef Cassis, European University Institute, Italy)2. Work and Labour Relations (Andrea Komlosy, University of Vienna, Austria)3. The Crisis of Hyper-Consumerism: Capitalism's Latest Forward Lurch (Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University, USA)4. Is There a Return of Capitalism in Business History? (Patrick Fridenson, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France) 5. Finance Capitalism (Harold James, Princeton University, USA) 6. Capitalism and Labour in Sub-Saharan Africa (Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)7. Capitalism as an Essential Concept to Understand Modernity (Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University, USA)8. The Return of Capitalism as a Concept (Gareth Austin, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland) 9. The New History of Capitalism (Sven Beckert, Harvard University, USA)Final Thoughts (Marcel van der Linden, International Institute for Social History, the Netherlands) Selected BibliographyIndex

De Grazia brilliantly uses her empirical research into the history of the Italian apparel industry’s commodity chains to illustrate the interaction between the global and the local ... The authors provide useful and insightful overviews.