Working in the Context of Austerity: Challenges and Struggles

Front cover\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nDedication\nTable of Contents\nList of Figures and Tables\nList of Contributors\nAcknowledgements\nPart I: Introduction\n	1. Understanding Austerity: Its Reach and Presence in the Changing Context of Work and Employment\nPart II: Trends and Themes\n	2. The Age of Increased Precarious Employment: Origins and Implications\n	3. Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Ambiguities of Platform-Mediated Domestic Work under Conditions of Austerity. Comparative Landscapes of Austerity and the Gig Economy: New York and Berlin\n	4. Trends in Collective Bargaining, Wage Stagnation and Income Inequality under Austerity\n	5. Privatization, Hybridization and Resistance in Contemporary Care Work\nPart III: Case Studies of Austerity in the Private, Public and Nonprofit Sectors\n	6. Non-Citizenship at Work: Labour Flexibility Behind the Counter in Western Canada\n	7. What We Talk About When We Talk About Austerity: Social Policy, Public Management and Politics of Eldercare Funding in Canada and China\n	8. Public Sector Reform and Work Restructuring for Firefighters in Scotland\n	9. Austerity, Personalized Funding and the Degradation of Care Work: Comparing Scotland’s Self-Directed Support Policy and Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme\n	10. The Rise of Managerialism in the US: Whither Worker Control?\n	11. Austerity and the Irish Non-Profit Voluntary and Community Sector\nPart IV: Alternatives and Resistance\n	12. ‘The most striking progressive achievement in labor and employment policy’? The Scottish Living Wage in Social Care during Austerity\n	13. Legislation: A Double-Edged Sword in Union Resistance to Zero-Hours Work – The Case of Ireland\n	14. Moral Projects and Compromise Resistance: Resisting Uncaring in Non-Profit Care Work\n	15. Austerity, Resistance and the Labour Movement\n	16. Afterword: Final Word and the Path Forward – Is the Myth of Austerity Giving Way to the Myth of the Robots Taking the Jobs?\nIndex\nBack cover