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OverviewBryan 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. Economically, austerity policies cannot be seen to work in the way elite interests claim that they do. Rather than soften the blow of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 for ordinary citizens, policies of austerity slow growth and lead to increased inequality. While political consent for such policies may have been achieved, it was reached amidst significant levels of disaffection and strong opposition to the extremes of austerity. The authors build their analysis in three sections, looking alternatively at theoretical and ideological dimensions of the lived experience of austerity; how austerity plays out in various public sector occupations and policy domains; and the class dimensions of austerity. The result is a ground-breaking contribution to the study of austerity politics and policies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bryan Evans , Stephen McBridePublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.660kg ISBN: 9781487502577ISBN 10: 1487502575 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 29 September 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Austerity as Lived Experience: An Introduction Bryan Evans and Stephen McBride PART ONE: THEORY AND IDEOLOGY Introduction: Manufacturing the Common Sense of Austerity Bryan Evans and McBride Chapter 2 Articulating Austerity and Authoritarianism: Re-imagining Moral Economies? John Clarke Chapter 3 Speaking Austerity: Policy Rhetoric and Design Beyond Fiscal Consolidation Sorin Mitrea Chapter 4 No Deal Capitalism: Austerity and the Unmaking of the North American Middle Class Eric Pineault Chapter 5 Framing the Economic Case for Austerity: The “Expansionary Fiscal Contraction Hypothesis” Ellen Russell PART TWO: IMPACT AND CONSEQUENCES Introduction: Austerity on the Ground Evans and McBride Chapter 6 Care and Control in Long Term Care Work Donna Baines Chapter 7 ‘Negotiate Your Way Back to Zero’: Teacher Bargaining and Austerity in Ontario, Canada Brendan A. Sweeny and Robert S. Hickey Chapter 8 Austerity and the Low Wage Economy: Living and Other Wages Bryan Evans, Stephen McBride, and Jacob Muirhead Chapter 9 Immigration in an Age of Austerity: Morality, the Welfare State and the Shaping of the Ideal Migrant Susan Barrass and John Shields Chapter 10 Pension reforms in the context of the global financial crisis: A reincarnation of pension privatization through austerity Yanqiu Rachel Zhou and Shih-Jiun Shi PART THREE: CLASS, RESISTANCE, ALTERNATIVES Introduction: The Old Strategies Don’t Work. So What’s Possible? Bryan Evans and Stephen McBride Chapter 11 From Austerity to Structural Reform: The Erosion of the European Social Model(s) Christophe Hermann Chapter 12 Austerity of Imagination: Quebec’s Struggles in Translating Resistance into Alternatives Peter Graefe and Hubert Rioux Chapter 13 Social Democracy and Social Pacts: Austerity Alliances and their Consequences Bryan Evans Chapter 14 Austerity and Political Crisis: The Radical Left, the Far Right and Europe’s New Authoritarian Order Neil Burron Chapter 15 ConclusionReviewsAusterity: The Lived Experience is a very welcome and much needed alternative to the mainstream narrative on the politics of austerity. - Christian Rouillard, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa 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. - 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."" --Thomas R. Klassen, Department of Political Science, York University "" Austerity: The Lived Experience is a very welcome and much needed alternative to the mainstream narrative on the politics of austerity."" --Christian Rouillard, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa Author InformationBryan Evans is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. Stephen McBride is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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