National states and the regulation of labour in the global economy - an introduction, Tony Elger, Paul Edwards; the recomposition of national states in the global economy, Peter Burnam; local discipline - making space for the workfare state, Jamie Peck; regulation, restructuring and regeneration in coalfields - three European cases, Chas Critcher et al; the Nordic model and the making of the competitive us, Pauli Kettunen; between control and consensus - globalization and Australia's enigmatic corporation, Ian Hampson; globalization and pursuit of pay equity - contradictory pressures in the Australian case, Gillian Whitehouse, Di Zetlin; labour clauses, the World Trade Organization and child labour in India, Robert Castle et al; tales of two worlds - the globalization of sexual exploitation, Julia O'Connell Davidson, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor.