{"product_id":"austerity-9781487522032","title":"Austerity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in \u003ci\u003eAusterity: The Lived Experience\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomically, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739690479959,"sku":"9781487522032","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487522032.jpg?v=1720052910","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/austerity-9781487522032","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}