A number of advanced economies carried out a sequence of extensive reforms of their labor and product markets in the 1990s and early 2000s. Using the Synthetic Control Method (SCM), this paper implements six case studies of well-known waves of reforms, those of New Zealand, Australia, Denmark,...

Introduction: Capitalism, crisis and the imagination -- The neoliberal imaginary -- Social imaginaries -- Plotting and planting: Rural regeneration at Tombreck Farm Scotland -- Seed change: Navdanya and the reimagination of reproductive economies -- No justice, no java: Tonatierra and the...

Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism -- Disposable daughters and factory fathers -- Manufacturing bodies -- The dialectics of still life: murder, women, and disposability -- Maquiladora mestizas and a feminist border politics -- Crossing the factory frontier -- Paradoxes and...