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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795050103321

Titolo

Austerity : The Lived Experience / / Stephen McBride, Bryan Evans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2017

ISBN

1-4875-1559-6

1-4875-1558-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 pages)

Disciplina

338.9

Soggetti

Economic policy

Financial crises

Equality

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Austerity as Lived Experience: An Introduction; PART ONE Theory and Ideology; Introduction: Manufacturing the Common Sense of Austerity; 2 Articulating Austerity and Authoritarianism: Re-imagining Moral Economies?; 3 Speaking Austerity: Policy Rhetoric and Design beyond Fiscal Consolidation; 4 No Deal Capitalism: Austerity and the Unmaking of the North American Middle Class; 5 Framing the Economic Case for Austerity: The Expansionary Fiscal Contraction Hypothesis; PART TWO Impact and Consequences; Introduction: Austerity on the Ground.

6 Care and Control in Long-term Care Work7 "Negotiate Your Way Back to Zero": Teacher Bargaining and Austerity in Ontario, Canada; 8 Austerity and the Low-Wage Economy: Living and Other Wages; 9 Immigration in an Age of Austerity: Morality, the Welfare State, and the Shaping of the Ideal Migrant; 10 Pension Reforms in the Context of the Global Financial Crisis: A Reincarnation of Pension Privatization through Austerity?; PART THREE Class, Resistance, Alternatives; Introduction: The Old Strategies Don't Work, so What's Possible?

11 From Austerity to Structural Reform: The Erosion of the European Social Model(s)12 Austerity of Imagination: Quebec's Struggles in



Translating Resistance into Alternatives; 13 Social Democracy and Social Pacts: Austerity Alliances and Their Consequences; 14 Austerity and Political Crisis: The Radical Left, the Far Right, and Europe's New Authoritarian Order; 15 Conclusion; Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

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.