Orchestrating Austerity
Impacts and Resistance
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.
About the book
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.
Authors
Contents
- Introduction (Donna Baines & Stephen McBride)
- PART 1: A CONTEXT OF AUSTERITY
- “In Austerity We Trust” (Stephen McBride)
- Structural Adjustment for the North (Robert O’Brien & Falin Zhang)
- The Strategic Use of Budget Crisis (Ellen Russell)
- Neoliberalism, Inequality and Austerity in Rich World Democracies (John Peters)
- PART 2: CONTRADICTIONS
- Austerity, Gender 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
- Bridging the Gap (Wayne Lewchuk, Sam Vrankulj & Michelynn Laflèche)
- Austerity Now, Poverty Later (Rachel Zhou)
- Austerity, Job Training and Aboriginal People (Shauna MacKinnon)
- Minority Nationalism in a Time of Austerity (Peter Graefe & Brent Toye)
- PART 4: PUBLIC SECTOR: TARGETS AND RESISTANCE
- P3s and the Value for Money Illusion (Heather Whiteside)
- Ideology in the Classroom (Andy Hanson)
- Care Work in the Non-Profits (Donna Baines)
- Why Austerity? (Jim Stanford)
- Bibliography
