Part I. Southern Europe : the labour market and the crisis. The themes, the concepts, and the field -- Employment relations and crisis management -- Part II. The changing context of employment relations in Spain, Greece, and Cyprus. Spain : compression and upheaval -- Greece, suppression,...

When small countries crash -- Sinking Scotland -- Caribbean follies -- Austria, credit-anstalt and the Great Depression -- When Finland almost failed -- Albanian pyramid schemes -- Volcanoes, Icelandic banks, and McDonald's -- Ireland's time of troubles -- Acropolis now -- Conclusion.