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
