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Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge

What It Will Take to Deal with American Decline, Inequality and the Climate Crisis

Neoliberalism arrived in Ottawa with the Mulroney government in 1984, and has continued as widely accepted common sense about government until today. Neoliberalism’s basic tenets – … 184 View

Restructuring and Resistance

Canadian Public Policy in an Age of Global Capitalism

This collection surveys major areas of neoliberal policy restructuring by various levels of Canadian government. Unlike other academic studies it also considers theoretical and practical issues … ; 392 View

The Age of Increasing Inequality

The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1%

For 35 years, Canada has become vastly wealthier, but most people have not. This book documents the dramatic and rapid growth in inequality. It identifies the causes. It proposes meaningful steps … 248 View
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Introduction

Critical Perspectives on Canadian Public Policy

From: Restructuring and Resistance

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Introduction

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge

In the Introduction, the author explains the impetus for writing this book and how it became clear that the ideology of neoliberalism lay at the root of the persistent inability to address the … 7 $0.70 Add
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Part One Globalization, The State and Shifting Terrains From the Workhouse to Workfare

The Welfare State and Shifting Policy Terrains

From: Restructuring and Resistance

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Neoliberal Politics

Transforming Conservativism

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge

This chapter discusses the economic conditions of the late 1970s that made Canada ripe for conservatism and the impact of the Regan and Thatcher governments on the rise of neoliberalism in Canada … 20 $2.00 Add
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The Policy Influence of Economic Ideas

Interests, Institutions and Innovation in Canada

From: Restructuring and Resistance

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Globalization and the Challenge to Canadian Democracy

National Governance Under Threat

From: Restructuring and Resistance

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Tracking Inequality in the New Canadian Labour Market

From: Restructuring and Resistance

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Federalism, Globalization and the (Anti-) Social Union

From: Restructuring and Resistance

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One foot in, one foot out

The Trudeau record on infrastructure and public transit

From: The Trudeau Record

This chapter discusses the Trudeau government’s investment in infrastructure and analyzes its commitment to public spending to realize affordable and accessible public transit. 16 $1.60 Add
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Part Two Neoliberal Restructuring of Public Policy

Education for a Lean World

From: Restructuring and Resistance

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A Changing Chinatown: On Gentrification and Resilience

From: White Riot

In this chapter, Ma explores Vancouver’s Chinatown: its history, the impact of gentrification and new urban developments, and the resilience of its community members. 8 $0.80 Add
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Policy From What?

Neoliberal and Human-Capital Theoretical Foundations of Recent Canadian Labour-Market Policy

From: Restructuring and Resistance

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Efficiency and the Erosion of Health Care in Canada

From: Restructuring and Resistance

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