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Austerity
The Lived Experience
Bryan Evans (Edited by), Stephen McBride (Edited by)
9781487502577
Hardback, published 29 September 2017
368 pages
23.5 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm, 0.66 kg
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. 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.
Chapter 1 Austerity as Lived Experience: An Introduction PART ONE: THEORY AND IDEOLOGY Introduction: Manufacturing the Common Sense of Austerity Chapter 2 Articulating Austerity and Authoritarianism: Re-imagining Moral Economies? Chapter 3 Speaking Austerity: Policy Rhetoric and Design Beyond Fiscal Consolidation Chapter 4 No Deal Capitalism: Austerity and the Unmaking of the North American Middle Class Chapter 5 Framing the Economic Case for Austerity: The "Expansionary Fiscal Contraction Hypothesis" PART TWO: IMPACT AND CONSEQUENCES Introduction: Austerity on the Ground Chapter 6 Care and Control in Long Term Care Work Chapter 7 ‘Negotiate Your Way Back to Zero’: Teacher Bargaining and Austerity in Ontario, Canada Chapter 8 Austerity and the Low Wage Economy: Living and Other Wages Chapter 9 Immigration in an Age of Austerity: Morality, the Welfare State and the Shaping of the Ideal Migrant Chapter 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? Chapter 11 From Austerity to Structural Reform: The Erosion of the European Social Model(s) Chapter 12 Austerity of Imagination: Quebec’s Struggles in Translating Resistance into Alternatives Chapter 13 Social Democracy and Social Pacts: Austerity Alliances and their Consequences Chapter 14 Austerity and Political Crisis: The Radical Left, the Far Right and Europe’s New Authoritarian Order
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