Great Recession-Proof?: Shattering the Myth of Canadian Exceptionalism

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

From Great Recession to Great Deception: Reimagining the Roots of the Crisis
Carlo Fanelli and Bryan Evans

ARTICLES

1. The Myth of Canadian Exceptionalism: Crisis, Non-Recovery, and Austerity
Jim Stanford

2. Crisis and Opportunism: Public Finance Trends from Stimulus to Austerity in Canada
Christopher Stoney and Tamara Krawchenko

3. Canada’s Conservative Class War: Using Austerity to Squeeze Labour at the Expense of Economic Growth
Toby Sanger

4. Stabilizing Privatization: Crisis, Enabling Fields, and Public-Private Partnerships in Canad
Heather Whiteside

5. When Resistance Isn’t Futile: Understanding Canadian Labour’s Fight for Decent Pensions
Joel Davidson Harden

6. What is Trade Union Bureaucracy? A Theoretical Account
David Camfield

INTERVENTIONS

1. Social Property Relations in the 21st Century: An Interview with Ellen Meiksins Woods
Jordy Cummings

2. Twenty-First Century Socialism and the Global Financial Meltdown: In Conversation with Michael Lebowitz
Rebekah Wetmore and Ryan Romard

3. Neoliberalization and the Matrix of Action: In Conversation with Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck, and Nik Theodore
Peter Brogan

4. Austerity is Bad for Our Health: Gender and Distributional Impacts of Ontario’s 2012 Budget
Shelia Block

5. Austerity and Aboriginal Communities: An Interview with David Newhouse
Carlo Fanelli

6. Climate Change and Crisis: In Dialogue with Simon Dalby
Jen Wrye

7. The Electro-Motive Lockout and Non-Occupation: What Did We Lose? What Can We Learn?
Herman Rosenfeld

8. Beyond the Economic Crisis: This Crisis in Trade Unionism
Sam Gindin

REVIEWS

1. Christine Pich – Whitmore, Elizabeth, et al. “Activism That Works.”

2. Natalie Spagnuolo – Engler, Yves. “Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid”

3. Jillian L. Curtin – Toussaint, Eric and Damien Millet. “Debt, the IMF and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers.”

4. Kevin Partridge – Hill, Gord. “500 Years of Indigenous Resistance.”

5. Tiffany Hall – Frölich, Paul. “Rosa Luxemburg: Ideas In Action.”

6. James Braun – Tully, John. “The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber.”

7. Rebekah Wetmore – Brouwer, Steve. “Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba and Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care.”

8. Naomi Alisa Calnitsky – Cockcroft, James. “Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now.”

9. Rania Tfaily – Ruben, Albert. “The People’s Lawyer.”

10. Sabrina Fernandes – Dwyer, Augusta. “Broke but Unbroken: Grassroots Social Movements and Their Radical Solutions to Poverty.”