• Gregory Albo is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto. He teaches courses on the foundations of political economy, Canadian political economy, alternatives to capitalism, and democratic administration.
  Posts:
  Unions and the Crisis: Ways Ahead? | December 11, 2009
• Vania Alleva is a member of the executive committee and leader of the service sector branch of Unia, the Swiss inter-professional trade union.
  Posts:
  Domestic Workers in Switzerland Protected by the Country’s First Sectoral Employment Contract | February 7, 2011
• Elmar Altvater is a retired Professor of International Political Economy at the Free University of Berlin, who has written extensively on political economy, ecology, globalisation and financial markets. He has been an active trade unionist for many years. He is member of the Academic Council of ATTAC Germany.
  Posts:
  European integration at the crossroads: Deepening or disintegration? | May 3, 2011
• Paulo Eduardo de Andrade Baltar is a researcher at the Centre for Labour Economics and Trade Unionism - CESIT – in the Institute of Economics of the State University of Campinas – UNICAMP – Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
  Posts:
  More pay and more jobs: how Brazil got both | June 16, 2010
• José Ricardo Barbosa Gonçalves is Professor at the Instituto de Economia, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) as well as researcher with the Centre for Labour Economics and Trade Unionism (CESIT). He has been doing research about neoliberalism, trade unions and social exclusion.
  Posts:
  Private Equity Investments and Labour: Current trends and challenges of trade unions | December 17, 2010
• Stefan Beck worked as a research assistant at the University of Kassel. He is currently preparing his dissertation about mercantilism and the German economic model.
  Posts:
  The German economic model emerges reinforced from the crisis | August 16, 2010
• Patrick Belser is the principal editor of the ILO Global Wage Report. Before working on wages, he spent 5 years with the ILO programme on fundamental principles and rights at work and co-edited a book called Forced Labor: Coercion and Exploitation in the Private Economy, published in 2009 by Lynne Rienner.
  Posts:
  Why we should care about wages | January 18, 2010
  Global wage trends: The great convergence? | March 22, 2011
• Andreas Bodemer is a former fellow of the Hans Boeckler Foundation and holds a PhD in political science from the Free University of Berlin. He worked at the DGB Brussels office before joining the Bureau for Workers' Activities at the ILO in Geneva. His research interests are Global Social Policy, International Labour Standards and Trade Unions.
  Posts:
  Working for a Social Protection Floor | November 28, 2011
• James K. Boyce is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he directs the program on development, peace building and the environment at the Political Economy Research Institute.
  Posts:
  How Capital Flight Drains Africa: Stolen Money and Lost Lives | December 12, 2011
• Sharan Burrow is General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC.
  Posts:
  Time for a new paradigm | February 21, 2011
• Esther Busser is the Assistant Director in the Geneva Office of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) since February 2009. She previously worked as trade policy advisor for the ITUC from 2003-2009.
  Posts:
  Trade, labour and the crisis: Time to rethink trade! | July 30, 2010
• Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi is Professor at the Instituto de Economia, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) as well as researcher with the Centre for Labour Economics and Trade Unionism (CESIT). Her work focuses on financialization, corporate governance and social exclusion.
  Posts:
  Private Equity Investments and Labour: Current trends and challenges of trade unions | December 17, 2010
• Claire Ceruti is a researcher attached to the South African Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. She has been doing research about class and strikes.
  Posts:
  Maturing contradictions: the 2010 public sector strike in South Africa | December 13, 2010
• Crispen Chinguno is an alumnus of the Global Labour University Masters programme at Wits (South Africa) and currently an International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) PhD fellow at SWOP, Wits.
  Posts:
  FIFA 2010 World Cup: fair play on the pitch but foul play for workers. | October 18, 2010
• Jacklyn Cock is a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand and an honorary research associate of the Society, Work and Development (SWOP) Institute. She has written extensively on militarisation, gender and environmentalism in Southern Africa. Her latest book is The War Against Ourselves. Nature, Power and Justice. (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2007).
  Posts:
  Contesting a ‘just transition to a low carbon economy’ | October 31, 2011
• Frank Connolly is Head of Communications with SIPTU (Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union). SIPTU is Ireland’s largest trade union with almost 200,000 members from a unionised workforce of 800,000 and a total labour force of 1.8 million people.
  Posts:
  EU ‘Austerity’ Deal won’t work – Irish Workers face a grim Future | January 18, 2012
• Conor Cradden is a research fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Geneva and a partner in Public World, a London-based research and policy consultancy.
  Posts:
  The True Cost of Doing Business | August 15, 2011
• Michael Dauderstädt is the director of the division for Economic and Social Policy at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
  Posts:
  Europe’s Hidden Inequality | February 14, 2011
• Bruno Dobrusin is MA candidate at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Global Labour University. He is also advisor to the International Relations Secretariat of the Argentine Workers' Confederation (CTA) and research scholar at the Institute of Studies of State and Participation, belonging to the State Employees' Union of Argentina. He is currently involved in the follow-up of the process of regional integration within South America for CTA.
  Posts:
  Argentina’s ‘Year of Decent Work’, a critical assessment | September 19, 2011
• Sebastian Dullien is Professor at HTW — University of Applied Science, Berlin. His extensive work on the financial crisis has recently been summarized in his book Decent Capitalism (published by Pluto Press in 2011, written with Hansjörg Herr and Christian Kellermann).
  Posts:
  The Costs of the Financial Crisis 2008/09: Governments are Paying the Tab | October 18, 2011
• Cédric Durand is currently Associate Professor at Paris 13 University and a member of the Centre d'Économie Paris-Nord (CEPN) and of the Centre d'Études des Modes d'Industrialisation (CEMI-EHESS). He participates in the editorial board of the critical review Contretemps (www.contretemps.eu). Cedric wrote his Phd on the trajectory of the metallurgical sector during post-soviet transformation in Russia; he has published several articles on post-soviet capitalism and on the internationalisation of the retail industry.
  Posts:
  New challenges for labour as growth prospects fade away | March 15, 2010
• Ellen Ehmke is an associate doctoral fellow of the International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), an academic North-South cooperation project hosted by the University of Kassel. Her research focus is on social protection policies in non-OECD countries. She has worked as a consultant for the ILO Social Security Department and taught social policy in Kassel and Berlin.
  Posts:
  Working for a Social Protection Floor | November 28, 2011
• Ekkehard Ernst is a Senior Economist at the International Institute for Labour Studies. He has previously worked at the OECD and the European Central Bank. His work focuses on the interaction of financial and labour market dynamics.
  Posts:
  The end of an era: What comes after financialisation and what will be the consequences for labour? | March 24, 2010
• John Evans is General Secretary of the Paris-based Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC). Prior to joining TUAC, his previous appointments have included Research Officer at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels, Industry Secretary at the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees (FIET) in Geneva and Economist in the Economic Department of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in London. He is currently a member of the Board of the Global Reporting Initiative, and member of the Helsinki Group.
  Posts:
  Creating jobs now and changing the economic growth model for the future | January 25, 2010
  The G20 and Jobs – Time for “Plan B” | December 20, 2011
• Cathy Feingold is the director of the AFL-CIO’s International Department. She previously directed the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center’s work in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, including worker education and advocacy training, and popular methodologies to research and document the problems of women and migrant workers. She led the organization’s humanitarian response to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
  Posts:
  The March to Protect Worker Rights and the Middle Class | March 28, 2011
• Heiner Flassbeck is currently the Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He is the principal author and the leader of the team preparing UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report.
  Posts:
  Putting employment security first will diminish demand - a warning from Germany | March 2, 2010
• Dan Gallin is currently chair of the Global Labour Institute (GLI). Prior to this, Dan worked for the IUF (International Union of Food workers) from August 1960 until April 1997, since 1968 as General Secretary. He is currently researching union organization of women workers in the informal economy, labour move-ment history and issues of policy and organization in the international trade union movement.
  Posts:
  Summer days on Utøya | October 10, 2011
• Francesco Garibaldo is an industrial sociologist and the former director of the Institute for Labour (IPL) and of the Institute for Economic and Social research (IRESCGIL) at CGIL, Italy’s largest trade union confederation.
  Posts:
  Fiat is at war, says Sergio Marchionne | April 19, 2011
• Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (http://www.networkideas.org/). She has consulted with many international organisations and governments, and works actively with progressive organisations in India and elsewhere.
  Posts:
  What does wage-led growth mean in developing countries with large informal employment? | October 11, 2010
• Vera Glassner is a researcher at the European Trade Union Institute.
  Posts:
  Social partner responses to the economic crisis in Europe: Why collective bargaining makes a difference | May 6, 2010
• Pierre Habbard is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD.
  Posts:
  Taxing financial transactions: the right thing to do when you owe $600bn a year and have lost control over global finance | April 15, 2010
• Eckhard Hein is a Professor of Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.
  Posts:
  Short-run stabilisation policies will not do: the case for a Keynesian New Deal at the European and global level | August 27, 2010
• Hansjörg Herr is professor for Supranational Integration at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and at his university the economic director for the MA Labour Policies and Globalisation of the Global Labour University.
  Posts:
  Reform Options for Financial Systems | October 4, 2010
• Ognian Hishow is a senior research fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin and Visiting professor at the University of Rochester, New York. His current work is around the debt crisis in Europe and disintegration of the Euro-area while his general research interests include European economic integration, growth and employment in the enlarged EU.
  Posts:
  What role do big corporations play in the economic well-being of the European Union? A non-standard view of Eastern Europe | December 5, 2011
• Claire Hobden is a junior project officer at the Bureau for Workers' Activities of the ILO. She was previously the organizational development coordinator at Domestic Workers United.
  Posts:
  Reversing a History of Exclusion through International Labour Law | February 28, 2011
• Frank Hoffer is senior research officer at the Bureau for Workers' Activities of the ILO. He writes in his personal capacity.
  Posts:
  Don’t waste the crisis: The case for sustained public investment and wage-led recovery policies. | November 19, 2009
  International Labour Standards: an old instrument revisited | January 24, 2011
  Change or lose Europe | March 7, 2011
  Decent Work 2.0 | November 14, 2011
• Elaine Sio-ieng Hui is a PhD candidate at Kassel University, Germany, and she also works as a research assistant in the City University of Hong Kong.
  Posts:
  Where is the trade union reform and labour legislation in China heading to? | May 9, 2011
• Richard Hyman is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at the LSE and founding editor of the European Journal of Industrial Relations. He has written extensively on the themes of industrial relations, collective bargaining, trade unionism, industrial conflict and labour market policy. He is currently working on a book comparing trade union strategies in ten European countries.
  Posts:
  Economic Democracy: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Again? | April 11, 2011
• Andrew Jackson is Chief Economist and National Director of Social and Economic Policy with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), where he has worked since 1989. He is also a Research Professor in the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and a Fellow with the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University. He has written numerous articles for popular and academic publications, and is the author of Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues, published by Canadian Scholars Press (2005).
  Posts:
  Beyond “Stimulus” - Fiscal Policy after the Great Recession | February 1, 2010
• Ronald Janssen works as an economic adviser in Brussels.
  Posts:
  Greece-bashing is hiding the obvious: monetary union urgently needs economic union | February 23, 2010
  Precarious work makes for a precarious recovery | September 27, 2010
  European Economic Governance: The Next Big Hold Up On Wages | January 18, 2011
• Renana Jhabvala is one of the early founders of Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). She has been a Secretary of SEWA and the Chair of SEWA Bank. Presently she is the Chair of SEWA Bharat, which is the all India federation of SEWA. She has written extensively on the informal economy.
  Posts:
  Financial Crises, the Informal Economy and Workers Unions | January 7, 2010
• Christian Kellermann is the Director of the Nordic Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) in Stockholm. Before joining the FES, he worked as a financial market analyst in Frankfurt and New York.
  Posts:
  A Plan B for the World Economy | August 30, 2011
• Lars Vande Keybus is an economic advisor at the Belgian trade union ABVV-FGTB. His specialties include macro-economic policy, European Economic Governance, Trade & Globalisation and Decent Work campaigning.
  Posts:
  Minimum wages in Europe: a strategy against wage-dumping policies? | February 6, 2012
• Richard Kozul-Wright is a senior UN economist heading the unit on Economic Integration and Cooperation Among Developing Countries in UNCTAD. He was previously in charge of the World Economic and Social Survey in UNDESA, New York. He holds a Ph.D in economics from the University of Cambridge, UK, and has published papers on economic history and development issues.
  Posts:
  Trade, employment and development: Back on track? | November 29, 2010
• Bob Kyloh is a Senior Economic Advisor in the Integration Department of the ILO. He has previously worked for the Bureau of Workers Activities in the ILO and the Australian Government.
  Posts:
  Riding Your Luck and Adopting the Right Policies: Why the Australian Economy is Rebounding Strongly | February 8, 2010
• Eric Lee is the founding editor of LabourStart www.labourstart.org/, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement.
  Posts:
  Global Labour Online Campaigns: The next 10 Years | January 10, 2012
• Philippe Légé is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Picardie (UPJV, France). His work is in the history of economic thought and the analysis of the current crisis. He's a member of the French Association of Political Economy (AFEP).
  Posts:
  The struggle against pension reform in France | December 6, 2010
• Parry Leung is the Chairperson of Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior and a researcher on labour issues in China.
  Posts:
  Where is the trade union reform and labour legislation in China heading to? | May 9, 2011
• Klaus Lörcher is former legal adviser of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)[, former head of the International and European Law Department of the United Serives Union (ver.di),] Germany, and former Legal secretary of the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union.
  Posts:
  Firing at will – the employers’ response to the crisis | May 25, 2011
• Malte Luebker is a Working Conditions Specialist with the ILO’s Conditions of Work and Employment Branch (TRAVAIL) in Geneva. His main research interests are wages and income distribution. Prior to joining the ILO, he was a lecturer in Political Science at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany).
  Posts:
  A Tide of Inequality: What can Taxes and Transfers achieve? | February 13, 2012
• Goran Lukic works for the Association of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia. He is currently involved in a three-year project for the integration of migrant workers, asylum seekers and refugees and the empowerment of young workers. He also works on issues of precarious work.
  Posts:
  New Economy vs. Old Ways | November 7, 2011
• Francie Lund is the director of WIEGO Social Protection Programme and a Senior Research Associate, School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
  Posts:
  The global crisis, unemployment and HIV&AIDS: what role for public works programmes? | July 9, 2010
• Boy Lüthje is a Senior Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research, specializing in economic transformation and labor in China.
  Posts:
  Trade unions and worker struggles in Guangdong | April 5, 2011
• Birgit Mahnkopf is Professor of European Politics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She has published extensively on globalisation, the informal economy, industrial relations and European politics. She is member of the Academic Council of ATTAC Germany.
  Posts:
  European integration at the crossroads: Deepening or disintegration? | May 3, 2011
• Neva Makgetla is lead economist at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). She has previously worked for COSATU and the South African government.
  Posts:
  The international economic crisis and development strategy: A view from South Africa | February 17, 2010
• Writer and journalist Hein Marais is the author of the new book ‘South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The political economy change’, published by UCT Press and Zed Books. It is available online and at good bookstores.
  Posts:
  7 Reasons why a Universal Income makes Sense in Middle-Income Countries | September 5, 2011
• Sofia Massoud is a PhD candidate and junior researcher in the research group on ‘Changes in Transnational Labour and Economic Law’ at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She works on the influence of economic actors on society, in particular the violation of human rights by transnational corporate groups.
  Posts:
  Waiting for the “follow-up”? – “Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework” | June 20, 2011
• Jamie McCallum is a professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is veteran staff and organizer from the US labor movement.
  Posts:
  Supporting Dissent versus Being Dissent | November 21, 2011
• Alessandra Mecozzi has been the International Director of FIOM (the Italian Federation of Metalworkers) since 1996. She graduated from Rome's La Sapienza University with a thesis on the history of CGIL, the largest Italian union confederation. Alessandra has been working for FIOM since 1971.
  Posts:
  A modern Italian story | April 19, 2011
• Martina Metzger is the executive director of the Berlin Institute of Financial Market Research (BIF). Before joining BIF, she taught macroeconomics at several universities and worked with UNCTAD. Her areas of interest include financial market development in emerging market economies, macroeconomic stabilization and sustainable development.
  Posts:
  Brazil, India and South Africa: low spill-over, high resilience of financial sector | June 27, 2011
• Alessandra Mezzadri is lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS, London, where she teaches in the MSc Development Studies and in the MSc Globalisation and Development. Her research work focuses on neoliberalism, global industrial restructuring, and their impact on labour in developing regions. Her area of expertise is India.
  Posts:
  The global footloose proletariat and the financial crisis: reflections on the contradictions of export-oriented industrialisation in India | December 22, 2009
• Seeraj Mohamed is director of the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development Research Programme (CSID) in the School of Economics and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University). He also teaches at Wits University in the Economics Department and the Global Labour University Masters Programme. His work is in economic policy research, analysis and development. He has worked on economic and industrial policy for 2 decades.
  Posts:
  Social forces drive financial insecurity | November 15, 2010
• Mauro Moretto is a member of the leadership of Unia's service sector branch.
  Posts:
  Domestic Workers in Switzerland Protected by the Country’s First Sectoral Employment Contract | February 7, 2011
• Özgür Müftüoğlu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations at Istanbul’s Marmara University. He has published widely on labour studies and political economy and has produced and presented a weekly TV programme ‘Emek- Forum’ (Labour-Forum) for the last 2 years. He is also a columnist for the daily newspaper Evrensel.
  Posts:
  The 2008 Crisis in Turkey and the Unions’ Response | March 14, 2011
• C.W.M. Naastepad is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. She works on macroeconomics, (un-)employment, and technological change.
  Posts:
  Paying for Inequality: The Costs of NAIRU-based Macroeconomics | November 1, 2010
• Kumi Naidoo is the Executive Director of Greenpeace International. He began his career as an activist as a youth leader in South Africa’s battle against Apartheid. He then became founding executive director of the South African National NGO Coalition (SANGOCO), before heading CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, from 1998 to 2008. He was the founding Chair of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), served as Chair of the civil society alliance ‘Global Campaign for Climate Action’ (GCCA) of which Greenpeace was a founding member, and also served as a board member of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development.
  Posts:
  Talking about an Energy and Jobs Revolution | November 22, 2010
• Léonce Ndikumana is the Andrew Glyn Professor of economics and Director of the African Development Policy program at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests include issues external debt and capital flight, financial markets and growth in Africa.
  Posts:
  How Capital Flight Drains Africa: Stolen Money and Lost Lives | December 12, 2011
• Özlem Onaran is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, London. Her research areas include globalization, distribution, employment, investment, and crisis.
  Posts:
  Crisis of Distribution, not a Fiscal Crisis | June 9, 2010
• Yasemin Özgün is Assistant Professor in political science at Anadolu University - Eskisehir, where she researches politics, the media and poltical communication. She has published widely on Turkish politics, labour studies, education and feminist politics.
  Posts:
  The 2008 Crisis in Turkey and the Unions’ Response | March 14, 2011
• Vasco Pedrina is the National Secretary of the Swiss inter-professional trade union Unia and Vice-President of the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI). He represents the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB/USS) on the ETUC Executive Committee.
  Posts:
  The euro crisis and the European trade union movement | September 12, 2011
• Nicolas Pons-Vignon is the editor of the Global labour Column and a Senior Research Fellow with the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development (CSID) research programme, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is also the founder and director of the African Programme for Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE).
  Posts:
  Beyond neoliberalism? | June 1, 2010
  Bringing Politics Back In | June 8, 2011
• Florian Rödl is director of the research group on ‘Changes in Transnational Labour and Economic Law’ at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His fields of expertise include post-national constitutional theory with a special focus on labour rights.
  Posts:
  Waiting for the “follow-up”? – “Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework” | June 20, 2011
• Toby Sanger is a CCPA research associate and senior economist with the Canadian Union of Public Employees. He previously worked as principal economic policy advisor to the Ontario Minister of Finance and as chief
  economist for the Yukon government.
  Posts:
  Taxing Finance | July 18, 2011
• Jacques Sapir is Professor of economics and Director of the CEMI Research Centre at EHESS (Paris), which focuses on Russia and CIS countries and on international development. He is the author of several books on the Russian economy, international finance and economic theory, notably (2000) “Les trous noirs de la science économique. Essai sur l'impossibilité de penser le temps et l'argent”, Paris: Albin Michel and (2011) “La Démondialisation”, Paris: Le Seuil.
  Posts:
  Is the Eurozone doomed to fail? | August 1, 2011
• Christoph Scherrer is Professor for Globalization and Politics at University of Kassel, Germany. He is also executive director of the International Center for Development and Decent Work and a member of the steering committee of the Global Labour University.
  Posts:
  Finance capital will not fade away on its own | April 6, 2010
  The German economic model emerges reinforced from the crisis | August 16, 2010
• Peter Scherrer is the General Secretary of the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF). He was previously a trade union representative of the German metalworkers’ trade union, IG Metall, responsible for the steel industry.
  Posts:
  For a real European Industrial Policy | July 16, 2010
• Christian Schoder is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Department of Economics at The New School, N.Y. He holds MA degrees in Economics and Political Science from the University of Vienna.
  Posts:
  On the urgency of stopping global warming | November 8, 2010
• Bernadette Ségol is the Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation. Previously she was the head of UNI Europa, the European trade union federation for services and communication which represents 7 million workers and 330 affiliated trade unions. One of her main focuses is wage equality in Europe.
  Posts:
  The Crisis: the Response of the European Trade Unions | February 20, 2012
• Willi Semmler is a Professor at the Department of Economics at the The New School, New York. He is member of the New York Academy of Sciences and has been a visitor at Columbia, Stanford and the Cepremap in Paris. The second edition of his book "Asset Prices, Booms and Recessions" (Springer Publishing House) was recently published.
  Posts:
  On the urgency of stopping global warming | November 8, 2010
• Juan Somavia is Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
  Posts:
  Working for decent work for all everywhere | September 20, 2010
• Friederike Spiecker is a macroeconomist and independent consultant. She has published widely together with Heiner Flassbeck, chief economist at UNCTAD, on German, European and international economic policy.
  Posts:
  Change or lose Europe | March 7, 2011
• Rainer Stachuletz is professor for Finance at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Currently he is working as a consultant for the State Bank of Vietnam at the Banking Academy in Hanoi.
  Posts:
  Reform Options for Financial Systems | October 4, 2010
• Engelbert Stockhammer is working at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research interests include macroeconomics, income distribution, financial systems. He recently wrote "The Rise of Unemployment in Europe" (Elgar 2004) and "Wither Mainstream Economics?" (co-editor, Metropolis 2009).
  Posts:
  Profits, banks, and the state: How to get investment going again | December 4, 2009
• Servaas Storm is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He works on macroeconomics, globalization, agricultural development and the economics of climate change. He is one of the editors of the journal Development and Change.
  Posts:
  Paying for Inequality: The Costs of NAIRU-based Macroeconomics | November 1, 2010
• Steven Toff, a GLU alumnus, is currently studying law as a Public Interest Law Scholar at Northeastern University in Boston. He is veteran staff and organizer from the US labor movement.
  Posts:
  Supporting Dissent versus Being Dissent | November 21, 2011
• Raymond Torres is the Director for the International Institute for Labour Studies at the International Labour Organization. He recently launched the World of Work Report, the new annual flagship publication from the Institute.
  Posts:
  Global Financial Crisis 2.0 | March 8, 2010
• Till van Treeck is an economist at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) in the Hans Boeckler Foundation in Duesseldorf, Germany.
  Posts:
  Why the Stability and Growth Pact does not work | June 23, 2010
• Richard Tudway is a director of the Centre for International Economics in London. He is a researcher in corporate governance and a visiting professor of management, economics and finance at several international business schools.
  Posts:
  Corporate governance in a radically changed world - a fresh look at the Rhineland model | October 25, 2010
• Martin Upchurch is Professor of International Employment Relations at Middlesex University Business School, London, UK. He is co-author of The Realities of Partnership at Work (2008, Palgrave) and The Crisis of Social Democratic Trade Unionism in Western Europe: the search for alternatives (2009, Ashgate).
  Posts:
  The Crisis of Social Democratic Trade Unionism in Western Europe | November 24, 2009
• Asbjørn Wahl is Director of the broad Campaign for the Welfare State in Norway and Adviser to the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees. He is also Vice Chair of the Road Transport Workers’ Section of the International Transport Workers’ Federation.
  Posts:
  Building progressive alliances | July 5, 2011
• Andrew Watt is a Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI). He edits the ETUI Policy Brief on European Economic and Employment Policy and is co-editor of a recent book "After the crisis – towards a sustainable growth model". He writes a monthly column for the "Social Europe Journal".
  Posts:
  Making its voice heard: a role for the labour movement in policies for recovery | April 21, 2010
• Edward Webster is currently leading a research team designed to develop a diagnostic tool to track the goal of decent work in the province of Gauteng, South Africa. His most recently co-authored book, Grounding Globalisation: Labour in the Age of Insecurity, won the American Sociological Association (ASA) prize for the best book on labour in 2008.
  Posts:
  The Dilemma of Job Creation and Decent Work | September 26, 2011
• Chen Weiguang is the Chairman of the Guangzhou Federation of Trade Unions and the Vice Chairman of the People's Congress of the City of Guangzhou.
  Posts:
  Trade unions and worker struggles in Guangdong | April 5, 2011
• Monina Won is currently the Director of the International Trade Union Confederation/Global Union Federation, Hong Kong Liaison Office.
  Posts:
  Where is the trade union reform and labour legislation in China heading to? | May 9, 2011