Overview

"Following the 2007–08 global financial crisis, Western nations engaged a variety of measures that departed quite dramatically from conventional neoliberal wisdom. However, these policies were quickly succeeded by what we now call ""austerity"" measures. This collection engages with the question: Is there something new in this era of austerity, or should this be understood as a continuation and intensification of earlier forms of neoliberalism? Finally, Jim Stanford's afterword probes to the heart of the question of why austerity in the first place."

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Author:   Donna Baines ,  Stephen McBride
Publisher:   Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Imprint:   Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 0.10cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 0.10cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781552666852

ISBN 10:   1552666859
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 September 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction (Donna Baines & Stephen McBride) Part 1: A Context of Austerity In Austerity We Trust (Stephen McBride) Structural Adjustment for the North (Robert Brien & Falin Zhang) The Strategic Use of Budget Crisis in Canada (Ellen Russell) Neoliberalism, Inequality and Austerity in Rich World Democracies (John Peters) Part 2: Contradictions Austerity, Equality and Canadian Unions (Linda Briskin with Sue Genge, Margaret McPhail & Marion Pollack) Social Democracy in the New Age of Austerity (Bryan Evans) Neoliberalism and Austerity as Class Struggle (Eric Pineault) Part 3: Insecurities Private and Community Support and the Social Wage (Wayne Lewchuk, Sam Vrankulj & Michelynn Lafleche) Austerity Now, Poverty Later (Rachel Zhou) Austerity, Job Training and Aboriginal People (Shauna MacKinnon) Austerity and the Invisibility of National and Minority Struggles (Peter Graefe & Brent Toye) Part 4: Public Sector: Targets and Resistance P3s and the Value for Money Illusion (Heather Whiteside) What's New About the New Austerity? (Donna Baines) Afterword (Jim Stanford) Bibliography

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Donna Baines is a professor in the School of Labour Studies and the School of Social Work at McMaster University. Stephen McBride is a professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.

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