Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. Steve Ludlam is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield Andrew Taylor is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield Stephen Wood is Professor of Work Psychology and Deputy Director of the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield

• 1. Introduction: labour, the state, social movements and the challenge of neo-liberal globalisation - Andrew Gamble, Steve Ludlam, Andrew J. Taylor and Stephen Wood Theory2. The category of labour: its continued relevance in social theory - David Coates3. Labour in the twenty first century: state strategies - Vivien A. SchmidtTHE GLOBAL NEO-LIBERAL CHALLENGE4. Fractured capacity in regulating international labour standards:the perils of voluntary self-regulation and competition for moral authority - Austina J. Reed and Charlotte Yates5. Creating a labour dispensation for the 21st century: the case of South Africa - Darcy Du Toit 6. Liberalisation and trade unionism in Mozambique - Beata Mtyingizana7. Relations between capital and labour in Turkey: from neoliberalism to democratisation - Nazim Güveloglu8. Strange company? organised labour and the politics of liberalisation in India - Michael GillanPATTERNS OF RESISTENCE ACROSS THE GLOBE9. Problems of social movement Unionism - Bill Dunn 10. Self regulating markets, restructuring and the new labour internationalism - Rob Lambert11. Recasting the story of David and Goliath in the global economy - Anibel Ferus-Comelo12. Sintraemcali and social movement unionism: trade union resistance to neo-liberal globalisation in Colombia - Mario Novelli13. Canalising resistance: historical continuities and contrasts of ‘alter-globalist’ movements at the European Social Forums - Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton