Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; The Literature on the Crisis of Neoliberalism; Possible Alternatives; The Limits of the Left and Suggestions to Overcome Them; Neo-Fordist Proposals and the Return to the Nation-State; The Continuous Domination of Neoliberalism; The Organization of the Book; Notes; References; From Fordism to Neoliberalism; 1 The State in Classical Laissez-Faire, Its Crisis, and the Establishment of Fordism; Introduction; Classical Theories of the State; Classical Liberal Theorizations of the Role of the State; The State in Marx's Theory of Capitalism

The Historical Limits of the Classical Laissez-Faire SystemToward a State-Centered Capitalism: Polanyi and the Theory and Contradictions of Laissez-Faire; Keynes, Gramsci, and Ford: The Justification of State Intervention; Fordism and the Role of the State; The Establishment of Fordism; The Theoretical Debate; The Contribution of Habermas; Conclusions; References; 2 The Legitimation Crisis of Fordism: Ideological and Cultural Contradictions; Introduction; The Ideological and Cultural Dimensions of Fordist Regulated Capitalism

Gramsci and the Creation of New Forms of Social Control and the "New Individual"Parsons and the Primacy of the American Model; The Cultural Contradictions of Fordism and the Problem of Legitimation; Gramsci and Daniel Bell on the Contradictions of the Puritan Behavior of the Fordist Working Class; The Structuralist Critique of the Fordist Cultural Arrangements; Habermas and the Theory of System Crisis; The Ideological Contradictions of Free-Market Capitalism; Contradictions of the Regulated Capitalism Will-Formation; Conclusions; References

3 Legitimation and Resistance: The Structural Contradictions of Regulated CapitalismIntroduction; The Fordist System of Industrial Relations; The Legitimation of Class Relations; The Labor-Management Accord and the Expansion of the Welfare System; Security and Stability; The Contradictions of Material Legitimation, Resistance, and the Control of Class Conflict ; The Critique of Habermas; The Contradiction of the State Management of the Wage Structure; The Contradiction of the Class Dependency of Fordism; The Contradiction of State Planning of the Economy and Society

The Contradiction of the Control of ResistanceConclusions; References; The Establishment and Crisis of Neoliberalism; 4 Neoliberalism: Its Roots, Development, and Legitimation; Introduction; The End of Fordism and Implantation of the Neoliberal Regime; The Transition Phase; The Implantation of Neoliberalism; The Crisis of the Left; Globalization; Global Production; The Global Working Class; The Ideology of Neoliberalism and Its Legitimation; The Origins of Neoliberalism: Ludwig Von Mises; Friedrich A. Von Hayek; The Development of Neoliberalism; Conclusions; References