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Book SynopsisFollowing 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.
Table of ContentsContents Introduction (Donna Baines & Stephen McBride) Part 1: A Context of Austerity "In Austerity We Trust" (Stephen McBride) Structural Adjustment for the North (Robert Brien & Falin Zhang) The Strategic Use of Budget Crisis in Canada (Ellen Russell) Neoliberalism, Inequality and Austerity in Rich World Democracies (John Peters) Part 2: Contradictions Austerity, 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 Private and Community Support and the Social Wage (Wayne Lewchuk, Sam Vrankulj & Michelynn Lafleche) Austerity Now, Poverty Later (Rachel Zhou) Austerity, Job Training and Aboriginal People (Shauna MacKinnon) Austerity and the Invisibility of National and Minority Struggles (Peter Graefe & Brent Toye) Part 4: Public Sector: Targets and Resistance P3s and the Value for Money Illusion (Heather Whiteside) What's New About the New Austerity? (Donna Baines) Afterword (Jim Stanford) Bibliography
