Saving Global Capitalism

Interrogating Austerity and Working Class Responses to Crises

Edited by Carlo Fanelli, Chris Hurl, Priscillia Lefebvre, Gulden Ozcan

What began as an unprecedented housing meltdown centered in the United States in the summer of 2007, quickly turned into a global insolvency crisis throughout 2008, and later the most significant economic crisis since the Great Depression. Despite monumental bailouts and extraordinary coordination by all major capitalist countries led by the U.S. Treasury, the public purse that salvaged the making of global capitalism is now being undermined by the very financial markets that were rescued. A new… (more information)