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This study is among the first in Canada to document the
transformation of municipal governance and public services from
Keynesian to neoliberal public policy at the urban scale. Focusing
on the neoliberal transformation of cites in Ontario from 1954 to
2014, with special attention to Toronto, it begins with a
theoretical analysis of the remaking of municipal public finances
and intergovernmental transfers, exposing the social and political
causes of urban fiscal crises. This study makes the case that
cities have been underfinanced, which has led to a deterioration of
public services based on the contention that they are unaffordable.
Reductions to employee compensation have been a stated aim of
municipal austerity. Megacity Malaise analyzes the interactions and
strategies used by civic workers and community groups as they
struggle to understand and respond to demands for concessions.
Focusing on two major Toronto strikes (by CUPE locals 79 and 416),
it puts forward a range of evidence-based social policy
alternatives to austerity, drawing attention to labour-community
coalitions as the most effective strategy for building resistance
against neoliberalism. As headquarters to Canada s largest
financial institutions, local government, employment centre and
municipal unions, Toronto provides a vivid setting for studying
municipal restructuring. Fanelli s analysis is grounded in critical
political economy and informed by his decade-long experiences as a
Toronto civic worker and municipal unionist. Rigorous intellectual
analysis is combined with municipal employee interviews and
participant observation, providing a unique methodological approach
to examining the socio-political struggles in Toronto and
connecting them to municipalities across Ontario and beyond."
Rising Up traces the history and international context of living
wage movements across Canada. This compassionate and astute
collection of essays shines a light on alternatives to a
neoliberalized labour market, examining union- and community-based
approaches to labour organizing, migrant labour, and media
(mis)representations, among other key topics. Canada has one of the
highest rates of low-wage work among advanced industrial economies.
In a labour market characterized by the ongoing fallout from
COVID-19, deepening income inequality, job instability, and diluted
union representation, the living wage movement offers a response
and solutions.
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Marxian political
economy and especially Marx's great work Capital. 150 years after
the book's original publication, are there readings of Capital that
can help us find new pathways to progressive or revolutionary
change? In this wide-ranging new volume, leading thinkers reflect
on Capital's legacy, its limitations and its continuing relevance
for today, highlighting issues including ecology, gender, race,
labour, communism, the 'Third World' and imperialism. The
contributors also aim to identify the connections between Capital
and various socialist projects of the past, and draw lessons from
those experiences that might contribute to the reinvention of
socialist politics today. Contributors include: Ingo Schmidt, Carlo
Fanelli, William Pelz, Anej Korsika, Prabhat Patnaik, Silvia
Federici, Paul Thompson, Chris Smith, Peter Gose, Justin Paulson,
Jeff Noonan, Hannah Holleman and Peter Hudis.
From Consent to Coercion examines the increasing assault against
trade union rights and freedoms in Canada by federal and provincial
governments. Centring the struggles of Canadian unionized workers,
this book explores the diminution of the welfare state and the
impacts that this erosion has had on broader working-class rights
and standards of living. The fourth edition witnesses the passing
of an era of free collective bargaining in Canada - an era in which
the state and capital relied on obtaining the consent of workers
and unions to act as subordinates in Canada's capitalist democracy.
It looks at how the last twenty years have marked a return to a
more open reliance of the state and capital on coercion - on force
and on fear - to secure that subordination. From Consent to
Coercion considers this conjuncture in the Canadian political
economy amid growing precarity, poverty, and polarization in an
otherwise indeterminate period of austerity. This important edition
calls attention to the urgent task of rebuilding and renewing
socialist politics - of thinking ambitiously and meeting new
challenges with unique solutions to the left of social democracy.
The articles and interviews collected here problematize prevailing
characterizations of recession and recovery. Rather than focusing
on narrowly economistic measures, the contributors challenge
standard explanations of the Great Recession drawing attention to
the classed, ethno-racial and gendered dimensions of austerity and
retrenchment. Collectively, the book debunks the myth of Canadian
exceptionalism by demonstrating that the aftershocks of the
recession are far from over.
What began as an unprecedented housing meltdown centered in the
United States in the summer of 2007, quickly turned into a global
insolvency crisis throughout 2008, and later the most significant
economic crisis since the Great Depression. Despite monumental
bailouts and extraordinary coordination by all major capitalist
countries led by the U.S. Treasury, the public purse that salvaged
the making of global capitalism is now being undermined by the very
financial markets that were rescued. A new wave of austerity is
sweeping the globe.With a further slide into recession possible in
2011, a social crisis is brewing as the working class continues to
shoulder the burden of the economic crisis. The articles in this
issue scrutinize the austerity responses of governments around the
world designed to kick-start capital accumulation and recreate a
suitable environment for business investment. The contributors to
this collection provide a vivid portrait of working class
discontent in an era of increasing capitalist militancy.
From Consent to Coercion examines the increasing assault against
trade union rights and freedoms in Canada by federal and provincial
governments. Centring the struggles of Canadian unionized workers,
this book explores the diminution of the welfare state and the
impacts that this erosion has had on broader working-class rights
and standards of living. The fourth edition witnesses the passing
of an era of free collective bargaining in Canada - an era in which
the state and capital relied on obtaining the consent of workers
and unions to act as subordinates in Canada's capitalist democracy.
It looks at how the last twenty years have marked a return to a
more open reliance of the state and capital on coercion - on force
and on fear - to secure that subordination. From Consent to
Coercion considers this conjuncture in the Canadian political
economy amid growing precarity, poverty, and polarization in an
otherwise indeterminate period of austerity. This important edition
calls attention to the urgent task of rebuilding and renewing
socialist politics - of thinking ambitiously and meeting new
challenges with unique solutions to the left of social democracy.
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Marxian political
economy and especially Marx's great work Capital. 150 years after
the book's original publication, are there readings of Capital that
can help us find new pathways to progressive or revolutionary
change? In this wide-ranging new volume, leading thinkers reflect
on Capital's legacy, its limitations and its continuing relevance
for today, highlighting issues including ecology, gender, race,
labour, communism, the 'Third World' and imperialism. The
contributors also aim to identify the connections between Capital
and various socialist projects of the past, and draw lessons from
those experiences that might contribute to the reinvention of
socialist politics today. Contributors include: Ingo Schmidt, Carlo
Fanelli, William Pelz, Anej Korsika, Prabhat Patnaik, Silvia
Federici, Paul Thompson, Chris Smith, Peter Gose, Justin Paulson,
Jeff Noonan, Hannah Holleman and Peter Hudis.
Rising Up traces the history and international context of living
wage movements across Canada. This compassionate and astute
collection of essays shines a light on alternatives to a
neoliberalized labour market, examining union- and community-based
approaches to labour organizing, migrant labour, and media
(mis)representations, among other key topics. Canada has one of the
highest rates of low-wage work among advanced industrial economies.
In a labour market characterized by the ongoing fallout from
COVID-19, deepening income inequality, job instability, and diluted
union representation, the living wage movement offers a response
and solutions.
Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Canada appeared to
escape the austerity implemented elsewhere, but this was spin
hiding the reality. A closer look reveals that the provinces -
responsible for delivering essential public and social services
such as education and healthcare - shouldered the burden. The
Public Sector in an Age of Austerity examines public-sector
austerity in the provinces and territories, specifically addressing
how austerity was implemented, what forms austerity agendas took
(from regressive taxes and new user fees to public-sector layoffs
and privatization schemes), and what, if any, political responses
resulted. Contributors focus on the period from 2007 to 2015, the
global financial crisis and the period of fiscal consolidation that
followed, while also providing a longer historical context -
austerity is not a new phenomenon. A granular examination of each
jurisdiction identifies how changing fiscal conditions have
affected the delivery of public services and restructured public
finances, highlighting the consequences such changes have had for
public-sector workers and users of public services. The first book
of its kind in Canada, The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity
challenges conventional wisdom by showing that Canada did not
escape post-crisis austerity, and that its recovery has been vastly
overstated.
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