Financialisation in the European Periphery

Ana Cordeiro Santos is researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra, Portugal.

This book examines the case of Portugal throughout the process of financialisation, in particular the impact on its economy, work and social reproduction. This text is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in examining the uneven mechanisms and impacts of global finance.

(1) Post-crisis financialisation in the Southern European periphery: Introduction Part 1 - Financialisation and the Euro Crisis in the Southern European periphery (2) Revisiting the concept of semi-peripheral financialisation (3) Portugal as a European periphery: imbalances, dependency, and trajectories (4) Financialisation and structural change in Portugal: A Euro-resource-curse? Part 2 - Financialisation and labour relations in the Southern European periphery (5) Financialisation, work and labour relations (6) Reconfiguring labour market and collective bargaining institutions in Portugal: Turning the page on internal devaluation? (7) Financialisation, labour and structural change: The case of Portuguese internal devaluation Part 3 - Financialisation and social reproduction in the Southern European periphery (8) The deepening of financialised social reproduction in Southern Europe (9) Variegated financialisation: how finance pervaded (and pervades) housing and water provisioning in Portugal (10) Financialisation and inequality in the semi-periphery: Evidence from Portugal (11) The case for semi-peripheral financialisation: Conclusion Commentary (12) Framing Social Reproduction in the Age of Financialisation (13) Peripheries and Precarity: Portugal, Lisbon and Europe. Index.