Austerity: The Lived Experience

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Austerity

The Lived Experience

Edited by: Bryan Evans and Stephen McBride

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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About this book

Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience.

Author / Editor information

Evans Bryan :

Bryan Evans is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University.
McBride Stephen :

Stephen McBride is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.

Reviews

Christian Rouillard, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa:

"Austerity: The Lived Experience is a very welcome and much needed alternative to the mainstream narrative on the politics of austerity."

Thomas R. Klassen, Department of Political Science, York University :
"Austerity: The Lived Experience makes an important and timely contribution to current debates and literature on the impact of state policy during times of economic crisis."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Bryan M. Evans and Stephen McBride Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	ix
1. Austerity as Lived Experience: An Introduction Bryan M. Evans and Stephen Mcbride Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
PART ONE: THEORY AND IDEOLOGY
Introduction: Manufacturing the Common Sense of Austerity Bryan M. Evans and Stephen Mcbride Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
2. Articulating Austerity and Authoritarianism: Re-imagining Moral Economies? John Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	20
3. Speaking Austerity: Policy Rhetoric and Design beyond Fiscal Consolidation Sorin Mitrea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	40
4. No Deal Capitalism: Austerity and the Unmaking of the North American Middle Class Eric Pineault Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
5. Framing the Economic Case for Austerity: The Expansionary Fiscal Contraction Hypothesis Ellen D. Russell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
PART TWO: IMPACT AND CONSEQUENCES
Introduction: Austerity on the Ground Bryan M. Evans and Stephen Mcbride Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
6. Care and Control in Long-term Care Work Donna Baines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
7. “Negotiate Your Way Back to Zero”: Teacher Bargaining and Austerity in Ontario, Canada Brendan A. Sweeney and Robert S. Hickey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
8. Austerity and the Low-Wage Economy: Living and Other Wages Bryan M. Evans, Stephen Mcbride and Jacob Muirhead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	164
9. Immigration in an Age of Austerity: Morality, the Welfare State, and the Shaping of the Ideal Migrant Susan Barrass and John Shields Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
10. Pension Reforms in the Context of the Global Financial Crisis: A Reincarnation of Pension Privatization through Austerity? Yanqiu Rachel Zhou and Shih-Jiunn Shi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	222
PART THREE: CLASS, RESISTANCE, ALTERNATIVES
Introduction: The Old Strategies Don’t Work, so What’s Possible? Bryan M. Evans and Stephen Mcbride Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
11. From Austerity to Structural Reform: The Erosion of the European Social Model(s) Christoph Hermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
12. Austerity of Imagination: Quebec’s Struggles in Translating Resistance into Alternatives Peter Graefe and X.H. Rioux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	272
13. Social Democracy and Social Pacts: Austerity Alliances and Their Consequences Bryan M. Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
14. Austerity and Political Crisis: The Radical Left, the Far Right, and Europe’s New Authoritarian Order Neil A. Burron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
15. Conclusion Stephen Mcbride and Bryan M. Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	344
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355

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September 19, 2017

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9781487515584

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368

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487515584

eBook ISBN: 9781487515584

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