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Austerity is not always one-size-fits-all; it can be a flexible, class-based strategy taking several forms depending on the political-economic forces and institutional characteristics present. This important book identifies continuity and variety in crisis-driven austerity restructuring across Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain. In their analysis, the authors focus on several components of austerity, including fiscal and monetary policy, budget narratives, public sector reform, labor market flexibilization, and resistance. In so doing, they uncover how austerity can be categorized into different dynamic types, and expose the economic, social, and political implications of the varieties of austerity.

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Introduction: Theoretical Framework and Empirics; Political Economy of Debt and Finance; Politics of Public Money; Public Sector Restructuring; Labour Market Flexibility and Restructuring; Institutionalizing Precarity and Low Wage Work; Resistance and Its Limits; Conclusion.

Varieties of Austerity

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 3 May 2021
      ISBN-13 9781529212242
      978-1529212242
      ISBN-10 1529212243
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      Central / national / federal government policies Comparative politics Political ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Austerity is not always one-size-fits-all; it can be a flexible, class-based strategy taking several forms depending on the political-economic forces and institutional characteristics present. This important book identifies continuity and variety in crisis-driven austerity restructuring across Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain. In their analysis, the authors focus on several components of austerity, including fiscal and monetary policy, budget narratives, public sector reform, labor market flexibilization, and resistance. In so doing, they uncover how austerity can be categorized into different dynamic types, and expose the economic, social, and political implications of the varieties of austerity.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Theoretical Framework and Empirics; Political Economy of Debt and Finance; Politics of Public Money; Public Sector Restructuring; Labour Market Flexibility and Restructuring; Institutionalizing Precarity and Low Wage Work; Resistance and Its Limits; Conclusion.

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