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 Bibliography Index

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.