‘Enabling dissent’: Contesting austerity and right populism in Toronto, Canada

Thomas, Mark; Tufts, Steven

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“…Other studies (e.g. Greiner and Jalette, 2016;Thomas and Tufts, 2016) have also considered how conditions of neoliberalism and austerity have created both new challenges and new opportunities for public sector unionism. For example, Greiner and Jalette (2016) analysed how austerity provided an opportunity to renew union capacities and reaffirm union purpose among Canada's teachers' unions by framing issues in terms of threats to both members' vested interests and the broader community.…”

Section: Neoliberalisation Of School Education and Union Responsesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reframing the narrative: Renewing power resources and capabilities in union campaigns for public education

Gavin

2021

Journal of Industrial Relations

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Neoliberal logics have put teacher unions on the defensive, requiring evaluation of the resources and capabilities necessary to improve teachers’ industrial and professional conditions and broader public education issues. This article examines the case of a teachers' union in Australia – the NSW Teachers’ Federation – and their renewal of resources and capabilities in recent public education campaigns. In applying a power resources and capabilities framework to the analysis of two prominent campaigns, this article develops the argument for renewal of power resources and capabilities through mobilising and transforming narrative resources and reframing public education issues in order to challenge ideological narratives around public education, build discursive power and sustain influence within a neoliberal environment.

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Section: Neoliberalisation Of School Education and Union Responsesmentioning

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Reframing the narrative: Renewing power resources and capabilities in union campaigns for public education

Gavin

2021

Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…Like populism, it is designed to skilful manipulate crisis, both practically and discursively, in this case to spread 'market rule' and reductions in public spending [41]. It has been described as a 'restructuring ethos' in that it reconfigures labour markets, public policy, and even forms of governance [42]. From a governance perspective, austerity policies have restructured and refocused governance, providing further justification for a neo-liberal, market orientated approach towards the provision and distribution of public goods.…”

Section: Austeritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Populism, Austerity and Governance for Sustainable Development in Troubled Times: Introduction to Special Issue

Baker

Quinn

2022

Sustainability

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The sustainable development imaginary was built on a belief in co-operation, collaboration and consensus building and requires governance approaches that rely upon the values of a liberal, pluralistic, tolerant, and democratic society. Much scholarship assumed that the European Post-War, welfare, democratic order, with its emerging educated classes, would steadily progress towards an ever more refined and articulated version of these governance values. However, that governance imaginary has become increasingly deradicalised, focused instead on economic efficiency and technocracy. Our current ‘troubled times’ have now seen the rise of right populism and the imposition of austerity policies in Europe. Against this background, six key characteristics of sustainable development are examined through a governance lens—limits to growth, equity, inclusion, reflexivity, participation, and international solidarity—showing how right populism and austerity have further reshaped ideas about how to govern for sustainable development. Right populism and austerity have constrained both the narratives and tools available, while shrinking the political space for co-operation, reflection, and learning, poorly reflecting the governance values thought necessary to achieve an equitable and environmentally sustainable future. This has been further seen in the contested governance of the COVID-19 pandemic and the strategies designed to ensure post-Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic economic recovery.

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“…In the last decade, research published by the Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR) has discussed the implications of austerity for the public employment relationship and for the capacity of public institutions (e.g. Bach, 2016; Thomas and Tufts, 2016; Sommers et al, 2014). The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the discussion of the economic and social implications of austerity in the United Kingdom (UK) into sharp focus.…”

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Austerity in the United Kingdom and its legacy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

Arrieta

2022

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that public institutions and some households in the United Kingdom (UK) were in a vulnerable and weak financial position to mitigate its immediate outcomes. Public institutions did not have the necessary resources to support their communities and low-income groups were disproportionally affected by the economic contraction of 2020–2021. This paper explores how the disastrous consequences of the pandemic were exacerbated by the implementation of an austerity programme, that as an extension of a neoliberal ideology, supported the development of the market at the expense of reducing the welfare state. Through an assessment of four trends that were reinforced during austerity—the four ‘Ds’—this article shows that austerity influenced many of the struggles observed during the pandemic. These trends are disinvestment, decentralisation, decollectivisation and disintegration. Despite the lessons learnt in 2020–2021 and the evident need to move away from a neoliberal agenda that dismantled the capacities of the state, this article concludes that neoliberalism continues to threaten the welfare state and the formation of social collectivities. Some expenditure decisions taken by the British government in 2020–2021 could further deepen social class divisions and regional inequalities. More is needed from the government to tackle these social problems and to build a fairer and more equal society. JEL Codes: H0, I3, O1

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‘Enabling dissent’: Contesting austerity and right populism in Toronto, Canada

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Reframing the narrative: Renewing power resources and capabilities in union campaigns for public education

Reframing the narrative: Renewing power resources and capabilities in union campaigns for public education

Populism, Austerity and Governance for Sustainable Development in Troubled Times: Introduction to Special Issue

Austerity in the United Kingdom and its legacy: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

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