• Introduction David M. Kotz, Terrence McDonough and Michael Reich; Part I. The Theory of Social Structures of Accumulation: 1. Long swings and stages of capitalism David M. Gordon, Richard Edwards and Michael Reich; 2. How social structures of accumulation decline and are built Michael Reich; 3. Interpreting the social structure of accumulation approach David M. Kotz; 4. Social structures of accumulation, contingent history, and stages of capitalism Terrence McDonough; 5. The regulation theory and the social structure of accumulation approach David M. Kotz; Part II. History, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Analysis: 6. The construction of social structures of accumulation in US history Terrence McDonough; 7. The financial system and the social structure of accumulation Martin H. Wolfson; 8. Alternative social structure of accumulation approaches to the analysis of capitalist booms and busts Thomas E. Weisskopf; 9. The politics of the American industrial policy debate Jim Schoch; Part III. Class, Race and Gender: 10. Shopfloor relations in the postwar capital-labor accord David Fairris; 11. Towards a broader vision: race, gender and labor market segmentation in the social structure of accumulation framework Randy Aldelda and Chris Tilly; Part IV. The International Dimension: 12. Accumulation and crisis in a small and open economy: the postwar social structure of accumulation in Puerto Rico Edwin Melendez; 13. Apartheid and capitalism: social structure of accumulation or contradiction? Nicoli Nattrass; 14. The social structure of accumulation approach and the regulation approach: a US-Japan comparison Tsuyoshi Tsuru; 15. The global economy: new edifice or crumbling foundations? David M. Gordon; Afterword: new international institutions and renewed world economic expansion David M. Kotz, Terrence McDonough and Michael Reich.

"...a valuable resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates who can use it as a quick introduction to this perspective....[S]ociologists should see this book as an invitation to participate with SSA scholars in an ongoing multidisciplinary conversation that seeks to understand our current situation within a broader political economic framework." Fred Block, Contemporary Sociology