Models matter and have material effects on the lives of people. They emerge and change in historical, social and cultural conjunctures that operate at different scales and promote different subjective experiences and conditions of possibility for action. Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism engages critically with

1. Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism: Models, markets and crisis in the global system Part I: Models - What they are and what they do 2. Isomorphism and Local Interests in the Spread of Global Policies: An enquiry into privatization policy adoption using computer modelling and simulation 3. Modelling the Economy with Language 4.Class and Social Order: Political consequences of the move from class to culture Part II: Scale and Disjuncture 5. Steel Industry, Geography, and Regional Development: Evolving and travelling concepts 6. Learning from Minas Gerais: Flows of capital, production and managerial models in the steel industry 7. Continuities and Discontinuities of Economic Models and Workers' Perception of Model Changes in Argentina Part III: Innovation Technologies and Power 8. Global Dynamics, Local Responses to Industrial Innovation and Livelihood Transformations 9. Politics for Industrial Machines: Techno-political transitions in a Spanish steel plant Part IV: Policies and Politics 10. Civil society, Global Governance and the Circulation of Models 11. Spain's Labour Reforms: Temporariness, flexibility, and discipline of the working class 12. Reflections on an industrial policy for a sustainable European steel industry