Bryan 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.
Economically, 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.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 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
About the Author :
Bryan Evans is a professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Stephen McBride is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.
