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Book SynopsisBryan 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.
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 Conclusion
