Austerity, Security and Resistance
Submitted by carlo fanelli on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 6:34pm
Panel Abstract:
As austerity measures intensify around the world, the axe has come down particularly hard on public- and private-sector unions, the un/underemployed, and those denied status, with particularly marked gendered and racialized dimensions. Massive state retrenchment in the realm of social services, health care, education, pensions, unemployment insurance and stimulus spending, has been matched by wage controls, the sell-off of assets and resources, as well as tax-shifting for competitiveness, the weakening of environmental laws and employment standards. While resistance from student, trade union and community activists is noted, the state and its police force have responded in the most aggressive of ways. The papers presented here starkly reveal who will pay and who will profit as the transition from rescue to recovery increasingly returns not just to neoliberalism, but a more authoritarian form at that.
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- Political and Social Movements
- Political Economy and the Current Crisis
- Prison-Industrial Complex
- D. Panel Session 1—Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
- Carlo Fanelli—Carleton University
- Approved
- Carlo Fanelli—Carleton University
- George S. Rigakos—Carleton University
- Greg Albo—York University
- Justin Paulson—Carleton University
- Red Quill Books
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Panel Abstract:
As austerity measures intensify around the world, the axe has come down particularly hard on public- and private-sector unions, the un/underemployed, and those denied status, with particularly marked gendered and racialized dimensions. Massive state retrenchment in the realm of social services, health care, education, pensions, unemployment insurance and stimulus spending, has been matched by wage controls, the sell-off of assets and resources, as well as tax-shifting for competitiveness, the weakening of environmental laws and employment standards. While resistance from student, trade union and community activists is noted, the state and its police force have responded in the most aggressive of ways. The papers presented here starkly reveal who will pay and who will profit as the transition from rescue to recovery increasingly returns not just to neoliberalism, but a more authoritarian form at that.
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