'Now there is freedom': why Egypt's revolution is not over -- Nobody saw it coming: how the world's collective imagination failed -- 'Trust is explosive': Britain's youth rebel against austerity -- So, why did it kick off? The social roots of the new unrest -- Greece: the anomic state? From austerity to social breakdown -- 'Error de sistema': economic causes of the present unrest -- 'I tweet in my dreams': the rise of the networked individual -- In the tracks of Tom Joad: a journey through jobless America -- 1848 redux: what we can learn from the last global wave -- 'We will barricade': slum dwellers versus the super-rich.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222) and index.