Alberta Andreotti is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca
David Benassi is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca
Yuri Kazepov is Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Vienna

Framing the issues at stake
1 Western capitalism in transition: global processes, local challenges - Alberta Andreotti, David Benassi, Yuri Kazepov
2 A child of its times: the "new urban sociology" in context and its legacy - Michael Harloe
Part I: The transformations of global capitalism
3 Abstract from the concrete: capitalism spiralling out of control - David Harvey
4 Rethinking social reproduction in an era of the dominance of finance capital - Gavin Smith
5 On the social (dis)embedding of the economy in a local context: where anthropology and sociology share metaphors as analytical tools - Simone Ghezzi
Part II: Welfare capitalism and rights
6 The underclass and international comparison, variety and universalism - Jean-Claude Barbier
7 Welfare migration and civic stratification: Britain's emergent rights regime - Lydia Morris
8 The Mediterranean welfare states between recalibration and change in the cultural paradigm - Nicola Negri and Chiara Saraceno
Part III: Citizenship and migration
9 Deconstructing labour demand: implications for low wage employment - Saskia Sassen
10 International migrations and the Mediterranean - Enrico Pugliese
11 Cities under economic austerity: the return of citizenship claims - Marisol García
Part IV: Cities and urban transformations
12 The sense of touch - Richard Sennett
13 Urban disorder and the transformation of global governance - Sophie Body-Gendrot
14 Urban political economy beyond convergence: robust but differentiated unequal European cities - Patrick Le Galès
Part V: Segregation and the spatial dimension of poverty
15 The spatial dimension of poverty - Susan S. Fainstein and Norman Fainstein
16 Urban segregation, inequalities and local welfare: the challenges of neoliberalisation - Marco Oberti and Edmond Préteceille
17 Urban poverty and social cohesion: lessons from Naples - Enrica Morlicchio
Perspectives on the future of western capitalism
18 The double movement and the perspectives of contemporary capitalism - Enzo Mingione
Index