Austerity

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.

• Chapter 1 Austerity as Lived Experience: An IntroductionBryan Evans and Stephen McBridePART ONE: THEORY AND IDEOLOGYIntroduction: Manufacturing the Common Sense of AusterityBryan Evans and McBrideChapter 2 Articulating Austerity and Authoritarianism: Re-imagining Moral Economies?John ClarkeChapter 3 Speaking Austerity: Policy Rhetoric and Design Beyond Fiscal ConsolidationSorin MitreaChapter 4 No Deal Capitalism:  Austerity and the Unmaking of the North American Middle ClassEric PineaultChapter 5 Framing the Economic Case for Austerity: The "Expansionary Fiscal Contraction Hypothesis"Ellen RussellPART TWO: IMPACT AND CONSEQUENCESIntroduction: Austerity on the GroundEvans and McBrideChapter 6 Care and Control in Long Term Care WorkDonna BainesChapter 7 ‘Negotiate Your Way Back to Zero’: Teacher Bargaining and Austerity in Ontario, CanadaBrendan A. Sweeny and Robert S. HickeyChapter 8 Austerity and the Low Wage Economy: Living and Other WagesBryan Evans, Stephen McBride, and Jacob MuirheadChapter 9 Immigration in an Age of Austerity: Morality, the Welfare State and the Shaping of the Ideal MigrantSusan Barrass and John ShieldsChapter 10 Pension reforms in the context of the global financial crisis: A reincarnation of pension privatization through austerityYanqiu Rachel Zhou and Shih-Jiun ShiPART THREE: CLASS, RESISTANCE, ALTERNATIVESIntroduction: The Old Strategies Don’t Work. So What’s Possible?Bryan Evans and Stephen McBrideChapter 11 From Austerity to Structural Reform: The Erosion of the European Social Model(s)Christophe HermannChapter 12 Austerity of Imagination: Quebec’s Struggles in Translating Resistance into AlternativesPeter Graefe and Hubert RiouxChapter 13 Social Democracy and Social Pacts: Austerity Alliances and their ConsequencesBryan EvansChapter 14 Austerity and Political Crisis: The Radical Left, the Far Right and Europe’s New Authoritarian OrderNeil BurronChapter 15 Conclusion